Shirley South

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.ShirleySouthSNT@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 Shirley South 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

Following an increase in violence offences and weapons being found around the Shrublands Estate, the continued aim for Shirley South Safer Neighbourhood Team is to reduce violent activity via continued weapon sweeps, public crime prevention meetings, high visibility patrols and a continued police presence throughout the summer months

Although not at the same level as previously there continues to be weapons found in the estate. The team will continue to patrol the area and utilise their powers of stop and search where appropriate as well as conducting open space searches of the local area. The team have held contact sessions at the Children's Centre and will look to hold further meetings there and at the community centre where the residents can discuss any issues they have with their local officers

Robberies.

Although not as prevalent as previous months in Shirely. Robberies continue to occur across Croydon with students often being the targets. We will be doing more high visibility patrols in known hotspots and schools with in the ward.

The pattern of robberies on the ward appeared to be targeted to school children. The team have focussed patrols after school when robberies were occuring and have conducted visits to the local schools which has seen a reduction in robberies of school children. With 0 reported over the last few months. This still remains a priority to keep the number of school children being victim of robbery in Shirley South

Reducing Vehicle Crime.

There have been incidents of catalytic converter theft, theft of number plates, vehicles being entered and contents stolen, and vehicles being stolen. The team will target patrols to high crime areas, conduct visits to victims of crime and host crime prevention events.

Preventing motor vehicle crime remains a priority for the team. The team frequently patrol areas where crimes have occurred and conduct visits to victims to establish intelligence that can assist in identifying offenders. The team have also worked with neighbouring wards and traffic officers to patrol at the specific hours that the offences have been occurring.

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.