Kenley

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Kenley 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 Kenley@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).

Karolina Aamir

PCSO

Nathaniel Gates

Sergeant

Joe Hewett

Police Constable

Andrew Smith

Inspector

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
1) VIOLENCE RELATED PRIORITY Proactive patrol on Kenley Ward to reduce/prevent crime's within the Ward. Patrol known hot spot areas on our Ward. Regular patrols at places known to us as ASB hot spots. GODSTONE RD, OLD LODGE LANE. Concerns were also raised by the community about Domestic abuse. In response officers will continue to raise awareness and publicity on help /support and reporting options in a focus on this aspect of the Violence Against the person priority Issued 28 January 2026	Your SNT Team have been out patrolling the hotspot area's. Both on foot and mobile patrols. This has been posted out on recent Police social media. We will continue to support the ward. Actioned 28 January 2026
2) ROBBERY Raising awareness and carrying out reassurance visits. As well as providing residents with crime prevention advice. Targeting Robbers in the Kenley Area. Issued 28 January 2026	Following a linked series in robberies of school children covering a number of wards including Kenley, the team were quick to come up with a plan in order to arrest a suspect. After analysing the previous crimes, the suspect was arrested and charged for a number of robbery offences. The team will make sure hot spot areas are patrolled in both plain clothes and uniform. Further, crime prevention advice will be provided to children by attending community groups such as scouts. Actioned 28 January 2026
3) SPEEDING AND TRAFFIC OFFENCES Issued 28 January 2026	The team have been conducting speed enforcement around the ward. A number of tickets have already been given out and will continue to do so. Other traffic offences will also be targeted such as the use of mobile phones, no insurance and other moving traffic offences. Actioned 28 January 2026
4) SHOPLIFTING Shoplifting is a borough-wide priority for Croydon Issued 28 January 2026	Plain clothes operations will take place in stores that experience a high level of shoplifting. Working with stores and security, planned operations will take place in order to catch shoplifters in the act and deal with them thorough the judicial process. Actioned 28 January 2026

Priority

Action taken

1) VIOLENCE RELATED PRIORITY

Proactive patrol on Kenley Ward to reduce/prevent crime's within the Ward. Patrol known hot spot areas on our Ward.
Regular patrols at places known to us as ASB hot spots. GODSTONE RD, OLD LODGE LANE.
Concerns were also raised by the community about Domestic abuse. In response officers will continue to raise awareness and publicity on help /support and reporting options in a focus on this aspect of the Violence Against the person priority

Issued 28 January 2026

Your SNT Team have been out patrolling the hotspot area's. Both on foot and mobile patrols. This has been posted out on recent Police social media. We will continue to support the ward.

Actioned 28 January 2026

2) ROBBERY

Raising awareness and carrying out reassurance visits. As well as providing residents with crime prevention advice.
Targeting Robbers in the Kenley Area.

Issued 28 January 2026

Following a linked series in robberies of school children covering a number of wards including Kenley, the team were quick to come up with a plan in order to arrest a suspect. After analysing the previous crimes, the suspect was arrested and charged for a number of robbery offences. The team will make sure hot spot areas are patrolled in both plain clothes and uniform.
Further, crime prevention advice will be provided to children by attending community groups such as scouts.

Actioned 28 January 2026

3) SPEEDING AND TRAFFIC OFFENCES

Issued 28 January 2026

The team have been conducting speed enforcement around the ward. A number of tickets have already been given out and will continue to do so. Other traffic offences will also be targeted such as the use of mobile phones, no insurance and other moving traffic offences.

Actioned 28 January 2026

4) SHOPLIFTING
Shoplifting is a borough-wide priority for Croydon

Issued 28 January 2026

Plain clothes operations will take place in stores that experience a high level of shoplifting. Working with stores and security, planned operations will take place in order to catch shoplifters in the act and deal with them thorough the judicial process.

Actioned 28 January 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 Kenley are saying are the issues in the area:

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