St Helier

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St Helier Safer Neighbourhoods Team

Your Safer Neighbourhoods Team is a group of Met police officers dedicated to serving your community. The team is made up of officers based in your area or 'ward', supported by additional officers from the wider area.

We work closely with local authorities, community leaders and residents to decide our policing priorities for the area. This helps us to find useful, long-term solutions to local problems, while maintaining our wider focus on reducing crime across London.

To contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at StHelier@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101).

Nathan Attwell

Sergeant

Maria Dartnell

PCSO

Rucan Goksal

Police Constable

Sion Hamilton

Police Constable

Nicholas Swan

Inspector

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
Shoplifting offences Issued 26 February 2026	St Helier Ward and other teams will aim to tackle and reduce shoplifting offences and bring offenders to justice by; - Completing operations on Morden High Street targeting those committing theft offences - Working with business premises to ID offenders through the use of CCTV or other enquiries - Work with other teams within the Metropolitan police to secure convictions where there is appropriate evidence of an offence - Patrol areas where there are a higher number of shoplifting offences as part of a typical daily deployment End of January 2026 an operation took place with Merton Council ASB team targeting theft in Morden - on this day 3 people were arrested. We have another operation running Saturday 28th February 2026 and further operations planned in April 2026. Actioned 21 May 2026
Burglary Issued 26 February 2026	Officers and PCSO's will visit all victims of burglary, offering re-assurance and crime prevention advice to the community. Working in partnership with our investigation teams we will look to identify any evidential leads, such as CCTV to pursue offenders and bring justice to victims. We are also setting up pro-active operations targeting burglary and motor vehicle crime in the area and surrounding, next operations taking place end of March and start of April 2026 Actioned 21 May 2026
Motor-vehicle crime - both theft of and theft from motor vehicle Issued 26 February 2026	Pro-active operations have taken place in an attempt to tackle this issue, officers working extended or additional shifts has taken place targeting areas of high motor-vehicle crime which has lead to arrests of offenders during the deployments. Pro-active operations targeting burglary and motor vehicle crime taking place in the area and surrounding, next operations taking place end of March and start of April 2026 Preventing thefts from can be achieved from not leaving any money or valuables in unattended vehicles The most recent operation took place in the first two weeks of January 2026, in the two week deployment there was only one reported motor vehicle based crime Actioned 21 May 2026

Priority

Action taken

Shoplifting offences

Issued 26 February 2026

St Helier Ward and other teams will aim to tackle and reduce shoplifting offences and bring offenders to justice by;
- Completing operations on Morden High Street targeting those committing theft offences
- Working with business premises to ID offenders through the use of CCTV or other enquiries
- Work with other teams within the Metropolitan police to secure convictions where there is appropriate evidence of an offence
- Patrol areas where there are a higher number of shoplifting offences as part of a typical daily deployment

End of January 2026 an operation took place with Merton Council ASB team targeting theft in Morden - on this day 3 people were arrested.
We have another operation running Saturday 28th February 2026 and further operations planned in April 2026.

Actioned 21 May 2026

Burglary

Issued 26 February 2026

Officers and PCSO's will visit all victims of burglary, offering re-assurance and crime prevention advice to the community.
Working in partnership with our investigation teams we will look to identify any evidential leads, such as CCTV to pursue offenders and bring justice to victims.

We are also setting up pro-active operations targeting burglary and motor vehicle crime in the area and surrounding, next operations taking place end of March and start of April 2026

Actioned 21 May 2026

Motor-vehicle crime - both theft of and theft from motor vehicle

Issued 26 February 2026

Pro-active operations have taken place in an attempt to tackle this issue, officers working extended or additional shifts has taken place targeting areas of high motor-vehicle crime which has lead to arrests of offenders during the deployments.
Pro-active operations targeting burglary and motor vehicle crime taking place in the area and surrounding, next operations taking place end of March and start of April 2026

Preventing thefts from can be achieved from not leaving any money or valuables in unattended vehicles

The most recent operation took place in the first two weeks of January 2026, in the two week deployment there was only one reported motor vehicle based crime

Actioned 21 May 2026

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in St Helier are saying are the issues in the area:

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