South Twickenham

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 SouthTwickenham@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 Twickenham 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

Violence High Harm Numbers of reports of violence against person have increased.

Research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders. High visibility patrols and promoting of crime prevention through social media and engagement with the community. These actions have reduced the level of crime, we will endeavour to reduce further levels over the coming months. We have also made some real positive progress at the One Stop Shop at both St Marys University and Hampton Hill.

Motor Vehicle Crime

To reduce theft from motor vehicles throughout the ward.

Research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders. High visibility patrols and promoting of crime prevention through social media and engagement with owners of vehicles at highest risk. These actions have reduced the level of motor vehicle related crime, we will endeavour to reduce further levels over the coming months. Good work shown by ward officers identified two suspects who have since been charged with Theft from Motor Vehicle.

Burglary

Our burglaries have decreased in comparison to last year during this period. We have seen that most of our burglaries this period have consisted of around half of them being suspects breaking into sheds and taking bikes mainly, sometimes taking tools.

Our burglary hotspots will be monitored using our crime reports to work out areas to target, As well as identifying any burglary suspects. We will carry out crime prevention patrols in targeted areas and give out crime prevention advice. W now look forward to the days getting longer and lighter evenings into the spring. We will stay focused on our identified hotspots in the hope to reduce figures further.

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.