Old Kent Road

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 SNTMD-.OldKentRoad@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 Old Kent Road 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

There is regular drug dealing and drug use in communal areas at Colegrove Road. Drug users have been damaging communal doors to use drugs in the stairwells.

1/ Old Kent Road SNT have liaised with the council and had CCTV installed, we will follow up any evidence that the CCTV provides. 2/ We are in regular contact with the housing association and are attempting to get stronger doors put on communal blocks to prevent drug users from gaining access. 3/ We will conduct regular patrols in the area.

Northfield House and Peckham Park Road

There is regular ASB at Northfield House and Peckham Park Road. Drug users are at the location in groups causing a disturbance. They are defecating and urinating in the communal areas causing distress to the residents.

1/ Old Kent Road SNT will conduct high visibility patrols to deter this. 2/ Liaise with housing association to get CCTV installed at the location. 3/ Liaise with the Tenants resident Association to make improvements to deter this activity.

Shoplifting

Old Kent Road ward has a number of superstores which are subject to prolific shoplifting. This priority is to reduce shoplifting on the ward.

1/ Meeting with stores to brainstorm ideas on how to reduce shoplifting. 2/ Patrols of the stores at times shoplifting is most prolific. 3/ Have a meeting with Business Crime Team to identify methods of reducing shoplifting.

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.