Brixton Windrush

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Brixton Windrush 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 BrixtonWindrush@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).

Seila 7007As

PCSO

Sharon Badhan

Police Constable

Tuan Dinh

PCSO

Darren Firth

PCSO

Courteney Hunt

Sergeant

Kelly Leacy

Police Constable

Troy Simpson

Inspector

Darren Watson

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
Concerns continue to be raised by the community about drug dealing within the WINDRUSH SQUARE area and the use of drugs on the surrounding residential roads such as Brixton Road (O/S Brixton LT station), Electric Avenue, Atlantic Road, and Brixton Road towards the LT station, Windrush Square, Rushcroft Road, Coldharbour Lane, Saulton Road, Mervan Road, Effra Road etc. This also leads to rough sleeping on front door steps and damage to property. In response to this officers and partner agencies will perform a number of targeted patrols in and around the Town Centre at peak times Issued 24 June 2026	Officer Uplift for Brixton Windrush: We’ve recently welcomed two new members of our team, meaning that we’ve now got 3 x PCs and 3 x PCSOs. On their shift days, this enables to the officers to divide and patrol in more areas to increase visibility. Daily Patrols/CPWs: When on shift, the Brixton Windrush Officers are conducting daily patrols in and around the Ward primarily focusing on the Town Centre as that’s where our highest concentration of issues occur. Whilst out on patrol, officers are engaging with repeat offenders and issuing CPWs and CPNs to those who require enforcement. Days Of Action: The Team take part in monthly muti-agency Days of Action in ASB Hotspots across the Ward. Tackling the Handling of Stolen Goods: Officers visited 102 shops in the Town Centre to hand deliver letters and warn businesses about the dangers of handling stolen goods. We did this because we recognise that shoplifting is often a bi-product of drug use and we’re hoping to reduce the demand for stolen goods and make it harder for offenders to offload stolen goods. Actioned 24 June 2026
As ever this remains a priority and is a specific BCU priority. SNT officers will make VAWG an operational priority across the Ward and look for innovative ways to deliver better results. SNT officers will increase external scrutiny of our response; making sure that engagement with women and girls and the voluntary and community sector, continuous and deeper than it has been before. Issued 24 June 2026	Walk and Talk with local women: Officers are encouraging women to join SNT officers on a reassurance patrol in the area. On the Walk and Talk, we'll offer advice on how to contact us and how to keep yourself safe in the local area. Actioned 24 June 2026
We're aware of high levels of Anti Social Behaviour on our Ward. Concerns have been raised by both Partners and Residents on multiple occasions. Issued 24 June 2026	Days Of Action: The Team take part in monthly muti-agency Days of Action in ASB Hotspots across the Ward. ASB Reports: For every ASB report we receive, we make contact with the informant and gain any and all relevant intel to inform our strategy. Zero Tolerance Approach: Whilst out on patrol, officers have a zero tolerance approach to those committing ASB. Offenders are being issued CPWs, CPNs and pushing for Arrest where proportionate. Actioned 24 June 2026

Priority

Action taken

Concerns continue to be raised by the community about drug dealing within the WINDRUSH SQUARE area and the use of drugs on the surrounding residential roads such as Brixton Road (O/S Brixton LT station), Electric Avenue, Atlantic Road, and Brixton Road towards the LT station, Windrush Square, Rushcroft Road, Coldharbour Lane, Saulton Road, Mervan Road, Effra Road etc.

This also leads to rough sleeping on front door steps and damage to property. In response to this officers and partner agencies will perform a number of targeted patrols in and around the Town Centre at peak times

Issued 24 June 2026

Officer Uplift for Brixton Windrush: We’ve recently welcomed two new members of our team, meaning that we’ve now got 3 x PCs and 3 x PCSOs. On their shift days, this enables to the officers to divide and patrol in more areas to increase visibility.

Daily Patrols/CPWs:
When on shift, the Brixton Windrush Officers are conducting daily patrols in and around the Ward primarily focusing on the Town Centre as that’s where our highest concentration of issues occur. Whilst out on patrol, officers are engaging with repeat offenders and issuing CPWs and CPNs to those who require enforcement.

Days Of Action:
The Team take part in monthly muti-agency Days of Action in ASB Hotspots across the Ward.

Tackling the Handling of Stolen Goods:
Officers visited 102 shops in the Town Centre to hand deliver letters and warn businesses about the dangers of handling stolen goods. We did this because we recognise that shoplifting is often a bi-product of drug use and we’re hoping to reduce the demand for stolen goods and make it harder for offenders to offload stolen goods.

Actioned 24 June 2026

As ever this remains a priority and is a specific BCU priority. SNT officers will make VAWG an operational priority across the Ward and look for innovative ways to deliver better results. SNT officers will increase external scrutiny of our response; making sure that engagement with women and girls and the voluntary and community sector, continuous and deeper than it has been before.

Issued 24 June 2026

Walk and Talk with local women:
Officers are encouraging women to join SNT officers on a reassurance patrol in the area. On the Walk and Talk, we'll offer advice on how to contact us and how to keep yourself safe in the local area.

Actioned 24 June 2026

We're aware of high levels of Anti Social Behaviour on our Ward. Concerns have been raised by both Partners and Residents on multiple occasions.

Issued 24 June 2026

Days Of Action:
The Team take part in monthly muti-agency Days of Action in ASB Hotspots across the Ward.

ASB Reports:
For every ASB report we receive, we make contact with the informant and gain any and all relevant intel to inform our strategy.

Zero Tolerance Approach:

Whilst out on patrol, officers have a zero tolerance approach to those committing ASB. Offenders are being issued CPWs, CPNs and pushing for Arrest where proportionate.

Actioned 24 June 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 Brixton Windrush are saying are the issues in the area:

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