Tooting Broadway

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Tooting Broadway 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 TootingBroadway@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).

Shahid Asghar

PCSO

Huadong Cheng

Police Constable

Alistair Macpherson

Inspector

Hannah Marley

Dedicated Ward Officer

Kristina Poole

Sergeant

Rakulan Sivapalan

Police Contable

Andre Spinola

Police Constable

Barry Turner

PCSO

Cressida Wilson

Police Constable

James Wyatt

Police Constable

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
Robbery Our data shows that Robbery incidents are mostly committed on Mitcham Road junction with Tooting High Street around the ATM's. A distraction technique is being used whereby one suspect approaches someone using the ATM, whilst the second suspect steals the money being dispensed with the machine. Another current method, is a suspect approaching the victim and asking them to follow them on Instagram. When the victim is distracted by speaking to this person, a second suspect snatches the phone out of the victims hand. Issued 13 October 2026	Operation Trae continues to be a key initiative focused on reducing robbery, theft snatch offences, and other violent crime within Tooting Broadway. The operation adopts a proactive approach to preventing and detecting crime, with a particular emphasis on robbery and knife-enabled offences. Dedicated patrols are conducted using both plain-clothes and high-visibility tactics. Plain-clothes officers are deployed to identify and apprehend offenders committing robbery and theft-related offences, while high-visibility patrols act as a deterrent to criminal activity and provide reassurance to the public. A series of high-visibility operations have been conducted around Tooting Broadway Underground Station to strengthen police presence, disrupt offenders travelling into the ward to commit crime, and improve public confidence. The team also delivers regular crime prevention and community engagement activity, including robbery prevention stalls outside the station and monthly crime prevention events at St George's Hospital Actioned 12 January 2027
Anti-social Behaviour Tooting Broadway has a high footfall due to the tube station, Tooting Market and St George's Hospital. 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 13 October 2026	As part of the 2026 crime plan, we are dedicated to reducing ASB in the area. We tackle retail 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. The team have executed a number of drug warrants to tackle drugs dealing in the area, which contributes to drug related ASB. 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. Actioned 12 January 2027
Motor Vehicle Crime Vehicle crime is being committed in specific areas where a large number of vehicles are parked, this includes St George's Hospital car park and Sainsbury's car park, 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 targeted. Issued 13 October 2026	During our shift we regularly conduct hi-visibility patrols in the larger car parks on our ward. We have a good relationship with St George's Hospital and Sainsburys 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 Sainsbury's deploying a CCTV van to the far end of their car park to deter anyone looking to commit crime. There have also been discussions with the council around lighting and CCTV in the alleyways that lead to the car park from Mitcham Road and Bickley Street to make the area safer for customers. We will continue to monitor the situation through our reports and remind the public to follow crime prevention advice around keeping your vehicle secure. Actioned 12 January 2027

Priority

Action taken

Robbery
Our data shows that Robbery incidents are mostly committed on Mitcham Road junction with Tooting High Street around the ATM's. A distraction technique is being used whereby one suspect approaches someone using the ATM, whilst the second suspect steals the money being dispensed with the machine. Another current method, is a suspect approaching the victim and asking them to follow them on Instagram. When the victim is distracted by speaking to this person, a second suspect snatches the phone out of the victims hand.

Issued 13 October 2026

Operation Trae continues to be a key initiative focused on reducing robbery, theft snatch offences, and other violent crime within Tooting Broadway. The operation adopts a proactive approach to preventing and detecting crime, with a particular emphasis on robbery and knife-enabled offences.
Dedicated patrols are conducted using both plain-clothes and high-visibility tactics. Plain-clothes officers are deployed to identify and apprehend offenders committing robbery and theft-related offences, while high-visibility patrols act as a deterrent to criminal activity and provide reassurance to the public.
A series of high-visibility operations have been conducted around Tooting Broadway Underground Station to strengthen police presence, disrupt offenders travelling into the ward to commit crime, and improve public confidence. The team also delivers regular crime prevention and community engagement activity, including robbery prevention stalls outside the station and monthly crime prevention events at St George's Hospital

Actioned 12 January 2027

Anti-social Behaviour
Tooting Broadway has a high footfall due to the tube station, Tooting Market and St George's Hospital. 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 13 October 2026

As part of the 2026 crime plan, we are dedicated to reducing ASB in the area. We tackle retail 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. The team have executed a number of drug warrants to tackle drugs dealing in the area, which contributes to drug related ASB. 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.

Actioned 12 January 2027

Motor Vehicle Crime
Vehicle crime is being committed in specific areas where a large number of vehicles are parked, this includes St George's Hospital car park and Sainsbury's car park, 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 targeted.

Issued 13 October 2026

During our shift we regularly conduct hi-visibility patrols in the larger car parks on our ward. We have a good relationship with St George's Hospital and Sainsburys 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 Sainsbury's deploying a CCTV van to the far end of their car park to deter anyone looking to commit crime. There have also been discussions with the council around lighting and CCTV in the alleyways that lead to the car park from Mitcham Road and Bickley Street to make the area safer for customers. We will continue to monitor the situation through our reports and remind the public to follow crime prevention advice around keeping your vehicle secure.

Actioned 12 January 2027

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 Broadway are saying are the issues in the area:

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