West Dulwich

Welcome to Met Engage,

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

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

West Dulwich 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 WestDulwich@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).

Carl Mclean

PCSO

Prince Ofosu-Siaw

Sergeant

Jimmy Sinclair

PCSO

Anna Wachowicz

Police Constable

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
Theft from Motor Vehicle and theft of them. High visibility patrolling during the day giving crime prevention advice to owners of vehicles most at risk. Issued 21 October 2025	Patrol in hot spot areas to deter suspects and to target suspects and recently conducted a motor vehicle OP in the area to combat these offences. Actioned 31 December 2025
ASB Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), drugs and their related offences and because there is a nationwide and local spike in shoplifting offences, resident agreed for shoplifting to be part of ASB priority. We are working to engage with stores to improve reporting as local officers are now investigating these crimes. Issued 21 October 2025	Hi Vis patrols in the hot spot areas to deal with offenders and bring reassurance to the local community Hi Vis patrols around shopping district, arresting prolific offenders and dealing with them robustly Actioned 30 December 2025
Burglary due to Christmas coming up Issued 21 October 2025	To do mass leaflet drops in burglary hotspot areas. Crime prevention leaflets will be sent across via MET engage. Officers will send invitation out for crime prevention visits to all Met Engage members. Default patrols in burglary hot spot areas between the hours of 1600 hours and 1900 hours due to the nights drawing in early whilst resident are still at work leaving premises vulnerable. Actioned 29 November 2025

Priority

Action taken

Theft from Motor Vehicle and theft of them. High visibility patrolling during the day giving crime prevention advice to owners of vehicles most at risk.

Issued 21 October 2025

Patrol in hot spot areas to deter suspects and to target suspects and recently conducted a motor vehicle OP in the area to combat these offences.

Actioned 31 December 2025

ASB
Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB), drugs and their related offences and because there is a nationwide and local spike in shoplifting offences, resident agreed for shoplifting to be part of ASB priority. We are working to engage with stores to improve reporting as local officers are now investigating these crimes.

Issued 21 October 2025

Hi Vis patrols in the hot spot areas to deal with offenders and bring reassurance to the local community
Hi Vis patrols around shopping district, arresting prolific offenders and dealing with them robustly

Actioned 30 December 2025

Burglary due to Christmas coming up

Issued 21 October 2025

To do mass leaflet drops in burglary hotspot areas. Crime prevention leaflets will be sent across via MET engage. Officers will send invitation out for crime prevention visits to all Met Engage members. Default patrols in burglary hot spot areas between the hours of 1600 hours and 1900 hours due to the nights drawing in early whilst resident are still at work leaving premises vulnerable.

Actioned 29 November 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 West Dulwich are saying are the issues in the area:

Agree or not? Have your say now, click here to do the survey