Streatham Wells

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-.StreathamWells@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 Streatham Wells 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

Violence agaianst women and girls- carry out “Walk and Talks” with residents to investigate areas where people are feeling unsafe on the streets, eg from poor lighting or less on-street activity following introduction of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods



Russell's Footpath

Russell’s Footpath and Leithcote Path – work with Lambeth Council, Network Rail and residents to design out crime in the part of the Footpath that links the exit gate to Streatham Station to Streatham High Road and Madeira Road where ASB and drug-dealing are major issues. The police will also extend their patrols along the entire Footpath to ensure a full presence especially to where Bishop Thomas Grant School is located.



Robbery

Work with BTP, bus operators, TFL and Lambeth to reduce muggings, thefts and robberies associated with transport in particular of school children. Work with schools, to provide safe spaces, all targeted at tackling the increasing intimidation, knife crime, thefts and muggings affecting children and residents as they leave the school grounds;



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.