Addiscombe East

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 SNMailbox.AddiscombeEastSNT@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 Addiscombe East 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

Reducing Violent Crime as a Pan London objective working in conjunction with local residents and businesses to focus on hotspots areas and identified individuals

SNT officers are carrying out high visibiity patrols, whilst also working with other units to identify suspects linked to violence and carrying out arrest enquiries.

Begging & Street Drinking

After a reduction in the last few months regarding begging in Lower Addiscombe Road, there has been a slight increase in January 2025

Partnership work is being carried out through charities, rehabilitation assistance and housing accomodation whereby vulnerable persons are identified and through engagement obtain further support. SNT officers are engaging with the beggers

Theft/Shoplifting

There has been a continued issue regarding shoplifting within Lower Addiscombe Road at a number of venues

A number of arrests have been made resulting in known shoplifters attending court and receiving custodial sentences SNT will continue to carry out high visibility patrols and joint operations to identify suspects and make arrests

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.