Kennington

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 speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at ASMailbox-.Kennington@met.police.uk.

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.

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 Kennington 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

Dealing with Gang related crime associated with drug dealing offences.

Target those that deal drugs on Kennington ward.

Robbery & Theft Snatch Offences

To tackle robbery & theft snatch offences that are committed, especially in the winter months as the night draw in faster.

Hi Vis patrols to prevent and deter offenders from committing offences in Kennington.

ASB related offences also linked to drug taking.

To prevent and deter ASB offences being committed in Housing blocks by unauthorised access to blocks by offenders.

Hi Vis patrols & working in partnership with residents & housing associations to prevent unauthorised access to blocks.

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.