Barnehurst

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We're transforming the Met to become a service that truly delivers for you.

Through our new platform Met Engage you can get to know your local officers, help shape how we police your local area and have direct access to key information and advice.

This isn't just a platform for us to tell you what we're doing in your area, it's an opportunity for you to tell us what's concerning you most so we can take action on the things that truly matter to you.

Barnehurst 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 Barnehurst@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).

Donna Allan

PCSO

Cuneyt Arif

Police Constable

Thomas Bishop

Police Constable

Gareth Evans

Inspector

Rachael Jarman

Neighbourhood Inspector

Glen Turner

Sergeant

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
Violent crime/drugs concerns. Been informed by local members of the community and officers own work around suspicion and concerns of ASB and alleged drug dealing. This is to include the locality around Barnehurst train station including local shops and residential block of flats. Issued 05 November 2025	Action taken: Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups, individuals and vehicles of interest and co-ordinate a response of educating and enforcement through direct stops and searches where evidence exists and deal with appropriately through methods such as arrests, CPNW, partnership referrals. Build and increase the intelligence picture by our own knowledge supported by the information of local residents and police systems such as crime mapping . This will enable us to focus the teams efforts. Actioned 30 November 2025
ASB with emphasis to Colyers Lane, Hurstwood Avenue, Birling Road and locality. Issued 05 November 2025	Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement and engagement. This will result in a variety of outcomes from arrests to CPNW and other methods escalating to CBO’s if required. Engagement with residents where local residents are identified as being anti social working with partners to deal. Actioned 20 October 2025
Motor vehicle crime with emphasis to ABC roads and Colyers Lane Issued 05 November 2025	Action taken: Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement when required. Educating residents where required to target harden localities and thereby reduce opportunities of crime occurring. Through our own work and engaging with the public to build on the intelligence picture which will enable the team to focus and concentrate our efforts. Actioned 30 October 2025

Priority

Action taken

Violent crime/drugs concerns.
Been informed by local members of the community and officers own work around suspicion and concerns of ASB and alleged drug dealing.
This is to include the locality around Barnehurst train station including local shops and residential block of flats.

Issued 05 November 2025

Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups, individuals and vehicles of interest and co-ordinate a response of educating and enforcement through direct stops and searches where evidence exists and deal with appropriately through methods such as arrests, CPNW, partnership referrals. Build and increase the intelligence picture by our own knowledge supported by the information of local residents and police systems such as crime mapping . This will enable us to focus the teams efforts.

Actioned 30 November 2025

ASB with emphasis to Colyers Lane, Hurstwood Avenue, Birling Road and locality.

Issued 05 November 2025

Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement and engagement. This will result in a variety of outcomes from arrests to CPNW and other methods escalating to CBO’s if required. Engagement with residents where local residents are identified as being anti social working with partners to deal.

Actioned 20 October 2025

Motor vehicle crime with emphasis to ABC roads and Colyers Lane

Issued 05 November 2025

Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a variety of high visibility and plain clothes to increase enforcement when required. Educating residents where required to target harden localities and thereby reduce opportunities of crime occurring. Through our own work and engaging with the public to build on the intelligence picture which will enable the team to focus and concentrate our efforts.

Actioned 30 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 Barnehurst are saying are the issues in the area:

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