South Richmond

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 SouthRichmond@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).

We regularly speak to local residents to establish what issues they may be experiencing in the area. The word cloud below represents the issues that residents of South Richmond have highlighted as priorities for the area recently. Word clouds are graphical representations of word frequency that give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. The larger the word in the visual below the more common the word was in the local survey.

We seek to tackle the issues raised by you and your communities in your local area. To 'Have your say' on local issues, please click on the button below to complete a short survey.

Violence Related Priority

Reduce theft of motor vehicle

Traffic operation are currently being undertaken by local ward officers with officers from the Roads Transport & Policing Command (RTPC). These operations are being run every month and the use of ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition system) is being utilised.

Burglary

To reduce residential burglaries within the Borough of Richmond Upon Thames.

Have liaised with the intellignece department to identify specific trends including peak dates, times and MO. More high visibility patrols have been carried out in crime hot spots.

Shoplifting

To reduce theft by shoplifting within the town centre.

Regular patrols along George Street due to having numerous stores which have all experienced a number of shoplifting incidents recently. Better collaboration with business owners to secure evidence at the earliest opportunity. Working wth Met Intel departments to identify trends. Officers from other departments and specialist units have been provided funding for high visibility patrols in Richmond Town Centre where recently, a number of proific shoplifters have been arrested and are serving custodial terms. Shoplifting has seen a reduction in Richmond and this has been as a result of more visible policing. Officers are working on building cases against prolific offenders with a view to applying for banning orders.

In an emergency always call 999. If it is not an emergency, you can report crime online at www.met.police.uk or dial 101.