London Bridge & West Bermondsey
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey 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 LondonBridge&WestBermondsey@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).
Iain Bartley
Police Sergeant
Paul Durrant
PCSO
Joshua Head
Police Constable
Ali Hizyolu
PCSO
Philip Howes
Dedicated Ward Officer
Kaelon Parkes
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:
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Robbery / Weapons: This includes all hotspot areas where members of the public are getting robbed of mobile phones, watches and other items mainly around Tooley Street, Borough High Street, St Thomas Street and Tower Bridge Road. This can be from knife point robberies to cycle enabled phone snatches Issued 30 December 2025 |
Ward officers provide a regular police presence in the area to detect and deter criminal activity. These patrols patrols and activities are intel led and focus on times and locations where robbery offences occur. The Safer Neighbourhood Team offer crime prevention advice to members of the public as well as securing additional funding for patrols and signage across the ward area. The team conduct weapon sweeps regularly to in order to remove hidden weapons and prevent their potential use in violent crime. Actioned 24 February 2026 |
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward area has a wide array of small supermarkets that are targeted by prolific shoplifters. These individuals are often linked into our other ward priority of drug use and vagrancy. Issued 30 December 2025 |
The Safer Neighbourhoods Team work with venues to identify prolific repeat offenders who account for the vast majority of offences. Actioned 22 February 2026 |
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London Bridge & West Bermondsey ward area has a wide array of small supermarkets that are targetted by prolific shoplifters. These individuals are often linked into our other ward priority of Issued 30 December 2025 |
The team regularly use Community Protection Warning and Community Protection Notices to help curb the ASB that is associated with drug use. Stop and search where grounds allow is used and those that are found in possession of drugs are processed in the appropriate manner. The team conduct regular engagement activity with the Street Population sign posting them to services in order to house and rehabilitate. Joint patrols with a specialist NHS nurse dedicated to the Street Population, drugs and alcohol support workers, charity outreach workers and the Street Population lead for Southwark Council. Those committing crime or anti-social behaviour are dealt with appropriately Actioned 22 February 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 London Bridge & West Bermondsey are saying are the issues in the area:
Latest Alerts
Robbery and phone snatches
Your local police team has been out on the ward carrying out robbery / bike enabled phone snatch pat...
Drop-in Surgery : Thu 19 Feb 18:00 at Bermondsey Square Hotel
Hi Resident Just a confirmation message that our Meet the police event on the 19th of FEB will be ...
Crime Prevention Stall : Wed 25 Feb 11:00
Hello everyone Just to make you aware we have a Crime Prevention Stall at Guys Hospital and will ...
Drop-in Surgery : Thu 19 Feb 18:00
Hello everyone, Meet the police event for anyone who wishes to meet us and talk about local issues. ...
How we are tackling e-bike crime in Southwark
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LOCAL POLICE TEAM (SNT) Out on the beat.
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Hate Crime Forum Update
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Local Priorities Shoplifting Message
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