Oval

Welcome to Met Engage and the Oval Ward!

We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

The Met Engage platform allows us to truly connect you to your local officers and speak to them directly. This platform lets you feedback to us what really matters to you in your local area. Your opinions then enable us to shape how we police your local area.

It also enables us to send out our good news stories about how the team are policing in your local area and dealing with issues that matter to you, as well as give you direct access to key information and advice!

Oval 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 Oval@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).

Jacob Eager

Sergeant

Antony Knapman

Police Constable

Matthew O'grady

PCSO

Grant Price

PCSO

Adam Rooney

Police Constable

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
Violent Crimes and VAWG A priority of a reduction of violence related offences as a standard across the ward and to focus on Violence against Women and Girls. Issued 03 December 2025	Team to conduct intel lead patrols around any hot spots for this crime type. To identify any patterns in offending and repeat offenders. Actioned 03 December 2025
Anti-Social Behaviour Reduction A priority of the reduction in Anti-Social Behaviour across the entire Oval Ward. This includes ASB related events such as drug taking, groups loitering in specific areas and street drinking. Issued 03 December 2025	Team to take action against those causing anti-social behaviour and patrol at times where ASB has been reported. Details to be taken from those causing anti-social behaviour and community protection warnings and notices to be utilised where appropriate. Actioned 03 December 2025
Vehicle Crime A priority of tackling vehicle crime across the ward. This includes using vehicles in an anti-social manner on the ward as well. Issued 03 December 2025	Patrols to target hotspot areas for anti-social usage of vehicles and Section 59 notices to be issued to individuals found to be involved in anti-social behaviour. Patrols in relation to E-bikes are also to be conducted in order to tackle the ever-growing number of illegal e-bikes on the streets of Oval. Actioned 03 December 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violent Crimes and VAWG

A priority of a reduction of violence related offences as a standard across the ward and to focus on Violence against Women and Girls.

Issued 03 December 2025

Team to conduct intel lead patrols around any hot spots for this crime type. To identify any patterns in offending and repeat offenders.

Actioned 03 December 2025

Anti-Social Behaviour Reduction

A priority of the reduction in Anti-Social Behaviour across the entire Oval Ward. This includes ASB related events such as drug taking, groups loitering in specific areas and street drinking.

Issued 03 December 2025

Team to take action against those causing anti-social behaviour and patrol at times where ASB has been reported. Details to be taken from those causing anti-social behaviour and community protection warnings and notices to be utilised where appropriate.

Actioned 03 December 2025

Vehicle Crime

A priority of tackling vehicle crime across the ward. This includes using vehicles in an anti-social manner on the ward as well.

Issued 03 December 2025

Patrols to target hotspot areas for anti-social usage of vehicles and Section 59 notices to be issued to individuals found to be involved in anti-social behaviour. Patrols in relation to E-bikes are also to be conducted in order to tackle the ever-growing number of illegal e-bikes on the streets of Oval.

Actioned 03 December 2025

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 Oval are saying are the issues in the area:

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