Shirley North

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Shirley North 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 ShirleyNorth@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).

Kieran Green

PCSO

Sonia O'mahony

Police Constable

Sian-Louise Poole

Police Constable

Nathan Saville

Sergeant

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
Violence Related Priority - Tollgate Estate Following further reports of robbery, ASB and drug related crime across the Tollgate Estate we will continue to hold crime prevention advice meetings across the ward, street briefings and to carry out foot and mobile patrols. Issued 20 October 2025	High visibility patrols have been conducted in the affected area and CPN's will be issued to those who persistently cause ASB within the area. This is the first stage of more stringent enforcement of the problem within the area. Engagement with residents has also been completed to offer reassurance and highlight police presence within the area. Actioned 20 October 2025
Motor Vehicle Crime There have previously been a number of motor vehicle crimes occurring in The Glade/Gladeside. The ward team focussed on crime prevention through street briefings in the area as well as patrols in both marked and unmarked vehicles to deter and catch any potential offenders. This seemed to have the desired effect with a significant reduction in motor vehicle thefts in the area for a period of time. However, there appears to be an increase in these type of offences on the ward again. Through the use of contact sessions, street briefings and proactive patrolling the team aim to reduce the level of crime occurring on the ward through education on how to prevent our residents from becoming victims. Issued 20 October 2025	Operations have been completed over the past few months looking at motor vehicle crime, we have completed property marking events to highlight the issues of tool theft. Crime prevention advice has been given to owners of vehicles that are more likely to be targeted for theft. Actioned 20 October 2025
Shoplifting Following an increase in recorded shoplifting offences and some good positive work from the team, the ward panel were keen to maintain the work by adding it as one of the priorities. Issued 20 October 2025	The team have been working with BP Shirley Road to tackle prolific shoplifting in the area, after the recent apprehension of two suspects and information received of others the we will continuing this work but will be adding stores along Wickham Road such as the Co-op to our investigations. We will be working with local business to catch prolific shoplifters on the ward. Actioned 20 October 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violence Related Priority - Tollgate Estate

Following further reports of robbery, ASB and drug related crime across the Tollgate Estate we will continue to hold crime prevention advice meetings across the ward, street briefings and to carry out foot and mobile patrols.

Issued 20 October 2025

High visibility patrols have been conducted in the affected area and CPN's will be issued to those who persistently cause ASB within the area. This is the first stage of more stringent enforcement of the problem within the area.
Engagement with residents has also been completed to offer reassurance and highlight police presence within the area.

Actioned 20 October 2025

Motor Vehicle Crime

There have previously been a number of motor vehicle crimes occurring in The Glade/Gladeside. The ward team focussed on crime prevention through street briefings in the area as well as patrols in both marked and unmarked vehicles to deter and catch any potential offenders. This seemed to have the desired effect with a significant reduction in motor vehicle thefts in the area for a period of time. However, there appears to be an increase in these type of offences on the ward again.

Through the use of contact sessions, street briefings and proactive patrolling the team aim to reduce the level of crime occurring on the ward through education on how to prevent our residents from becoming victims.

Issued 20 October 2025

Operations have been completed over the past few months looking at motor vehicle crime, we have completed property marking events to highlight the issues of tool theft. Crime prevention advice has been given to owners of vehicles that are more likely to be targeted for theft.

Actioned 20 October 2025

Shoplifting

Following an increase in recorded shoplifting offences and some good positive work from the team, the ward panel were keen to maintain the work by adding it as one of the priorities.

Issued 20 October 2025

The team have been working with BP Shirley Road to tackle prolific shoplifting in the area, after the recent apprehension of two suspects and information received of others the we will continuing this work but will be adding stores along Wickham Road such as the Co-op to our investigations. We will be working with local business to catch prolific shoplifters on the ward.

Actioned 20 October 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 Shirley North are saying are the issues in the area:

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