Wandsworth Common

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 WandsworthCommon@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 Wandsworth Common 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

Robbery - Targeting school boy robbery offences in and around Wandsworth Common.

To increase patrols in the vicinity of Wandsworth Common, engage with groups of youths, progress investigations of offences identified and liaise / promote good work with local community through community engagement events - 'Coffee with a coppa', street briefings, etc...

Burglary

Reduce Burglary offences on Wandsworth Common Ward.

Regular foot / mobile patrols in hotspot areas. Liaise with Local Intelligence Teams in regards to monitor trends in offending on the Ward and adjust patrols accordingly to identify offenders. Carry out reassurance visits and Cime Prevention Events to assist in tackling the issue.

Theft of Motor Vehicle

To reduce Theft of Motor Vehicle within the ward

Increase patrols at relevant times in hotspot areas. Promote crime prevention / vehicle security through local engagement events and social media.

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.