Selsdon & Addington Village
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Selsdon & Addington Village 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 Selsdon&AddingtonVillage@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).
Callum Karn
DWO
James Morrow
Sergeant
Martyn Patrick
Sergeant
Summer-Jayne Ross
PC
Andrew Smith
Inspector
Andrew Vincent
Police Constable
David Waters
Dedicated Ward Officer
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 |
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To proactively patrol Selsdon & Addington Village Ward to reduce violence within the Ward. Patrol known hot spot areas that are cause for concern on our Ward. Issued 28 June 2025 |
High visibility patrols are taking place across various shifts to produce effective results Actioned 28 June 2025 |
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The ward & neighbouring wards have been subject to Catalytic Converter thefts over the past few months. We will actively patrol roads on the ward that are being repeat victims of this crime. Issued 28 June 2025 |
Mobile patrols being conducted across a variety of shifts to remain vigilant and also visible for the community Actioned 28 June 2025 |
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Burglary on the whole has been very quiet on the ward. We will endeavour to keep it that way with priority patrols in targeted areas. We will visit every Victim of Crime & give reassurance & Crime prevention advice. Issued 28 June 2025 |
Have conducted a plain clothes operation targeting burglaries which has been very successful in reducing the crime Actioned 28 June 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 Selsdon & Addington Village are saying are the issues in the area:
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