Tooting Bec

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Tooting Bec 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 TootingBec@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).

Alistair Baker

PCSO

Toan Chung

Sergeant

Cal Honess

Police Constable

Kasongo Kayembe

PCSO

Alistair Macpherson

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
Violence Related Robbery Crime statistics have shown that there has been an increase in street robberies in the Tooting High Street particularly towards Tooting Bec Station. Issued 19 November 2025	Op Kenny has been created and will be focused on the Tooting area. They are a team of officers who are dedicated to preventing and tackling violent crime in the area which does include Robbery and knife enabled crime. Op Kenny officers work closely with the Tooting Bec Safer Neighbourhood Team, which involves using gathered intelligence so we can focus our proactive patrols in hot spot areas. Patrols are conducted in plain clothes, to better identify any suspects committing these offences and hi-visibility to deter any criminality in the area. The team have recently been involved in Community Engagement around Tooting Bec Station Actioned 19 February 2026
ASB Tooting High Street Regular complaints from residents regarding Tooting Bec as having high footfall due to the tube station and High street. Due to this we are aware there is a problem with begging, rough sleeping, shoplifting, rowdy behaviour from licenced premises and drug dealing, this is across the ward and not specific to any certain area. These concerns are regularly raised to use in our ward panel meetings. Issued 19 November 2025	As part of the Summer 2025 crime plan, we are dedicated to reducing ASB in the area. Our team have been involved in Op Zoridon, which involved executing 11 warrants in the area to target venues who are suspected of buying stolen goods from shoplifters. This has helped us tackle retain crime by removing easy opportunities for shoplifters to make quick and easy sales. Money from these sales helps individuals fund drug addictions, so as a consequence of these warrant it was used to reduce the drug use in the ward. When tackling begging and rough sleepers we have been working closely with our partners in the council to engage with vulnerable individuals who can be referred to other services to support them in receiving housing opportunities. If you have any information that can help us tackle drug dealing or retail crime in the area then please remember to report your information to crime stoppers. Engagement around Tooting Bec Station Actioned 19 February 2026
Vehicle crime is being committed in specific areas where a large number of vehicles are parked, this includes roads and streets around Tooting Bec Station. Common offences being committed are theft from vehicles and theft of vehicles. Due to the high number of take away restaurants in the area, we have seen an increase in moped delivery drivers being tergeted. Issued 19 November 2025	During our shift we regularly conduct hi-visibility patrols in areas around Tooting Bec Station. We have a good relationship with local shops and organisations where we have meetings with managers so that we are kept up to date with any issues that they have been made aware of. Positive outcomes from these meetings include Wandsworth council deploying a temporary CCTV to a specific road to deter anyone looking to commit crime. There have also been discussions with the council around lighting and further CCTVs to make the area safer for the public. We will continue to monitor the situation through our reports and remind the public to follow crime prevention advice around keeping your vehicle safe. Actioned 19 February 2026

Priority

Action taken

Violence Related Robbery
Crime statistics have shown that there has been an increase in street robberies in the Tooting High Street particularly towards Tooting Bec Station.

Issued 19 November 2025

Op Kenny has been created and will be focused on the Tooting area. They are a team of officers who are dedicated to preventing and tackling violent crime in the area which does include Robbery and knife enabled crime. Op Kenny officers work closely with the Tooting Bec Safer Neighbourhood Team, which involves using gathered intelligence so we can focus our proactive patrols in hot spot areas. Patrols are conducted in plain clothes, to better identify any suspects committing these offences and hi-visibility to deter any criminality in the area. The team have recently been involved in Community Engagement around Tooting Bec Station

Actioned 19 February 2026

ASB Tooting High Street

Regular complaints from residents regarding Tooting Bec as having high footfall due to the tube station and High street. Due to this we are aware there is a problem with begging, rough sleeping, shoplifting, rowdy behaviour from licenced premises and drug dealing, this is across the ward and not specific to any certain area. These concerns are regularly raised to use in our ward panel meetings.

Issued 19 November 2025

As part of the Summer 2025 crime plan, we are dedicated to reducing ASB in the area. Our team have been involved in Op Zoridon, which involved executing 11 warrants in the area to target venues who are suspected of buying stolen goods from shoplifters. This has helped us tackle retain crime by removing easy opportunities for shoplifters to make quick and easy sales. Money from these sales helps individuals fund drug addictions, so as a consequence of these warrant it was used to reduce the drug use in the ward. When tackling begging and rough sleepers we have been working closely with our partners in the council to engage with vulnerable individuals who can be referred to other services to support them in receiving housing opportunities. If you have any information that can help us tackle drug dealing or retail crime in the area then please remember to report your information to crime stoppers. Engagement around Tooting Bec Station

Actioned 19 February 2026

Vehicle crime is being committed in specific areas where a large number of vehicles are parked, this includes roads and streets around Tooting Bec Station. Common offences being committed are theft from vehicles and theft of vehicles. Due to the high number of take away restaurants in the area, we have seen an increase in moped delivery drivers being tergeted.

Issued 19 November 2025

During our shift we regularly conduct hi-visibility patrols in areas around Tooting Bec Station. We have a good relationship with local shops and organisations where we have meetings with managers so that we are kept up to date with any issues that they have been made aware of. Positive outcomes from these meetings include Wandsworth council deploying a temporary CCTV to a specific road to deter anyone looking to commit crime. There have also been discussions with the council around lighting and further CCTVs to make the area safer for the public. We will continue to monitor the situation through our reports and remind the public to follow crime prevention advice around keeping your vehicle safe.

Actioned 19 February 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 Tooting Bec are saying are the issues in the area:

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