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

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 there has been an increase in robbery incidents 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. Issued 21 May 2026	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 Broadway 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 at Barclays bank the engage with their customers. Actioned 30 September 2026
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 21 May 2026	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. Actioned 30 September 2026
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 21 May 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 30 September 2026

Priority

Action taken

Robbery
Our data shows that there has been an increase in robbery incidents 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.

Issued 21 May 2026

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 Broadway 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 at Barclays bank the engage with their customers.

Actioned 30 September 2026

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 21 May 2026

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.

Actioned 30 September 2026

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 21 May 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 30 September 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 Broadway are saying are the issues in the area:

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