Barnehurst

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 barnehurst.snt@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 Barnehurst 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

To include drug use/supply. Violent crime including drug use and drug dealing. The areas to target are Merewood Road, Windermere Road and the vicinity of Barnehurst BR station.

Mobile patrol and foot patrols to Barnehurst BR Station, Merewood Road and Windermere Road. Plain clothes patrols to be carried out too.

Motor Vehicle Crime

This will involve theft of motor vehicle, theft from motor vehicle and vehicle interference.

Crime prevention advice around vehicle crime to be given out at various venues on the ward. Patrols to hotspot areas around the ward in particular Eversley Avenue and adjacent roads. To continue to carry out speed operations at various locations on the ward.

Burglary

Burglary will be a priority on the ward. Our aim is to decrease burglary crime figures on the ward by patrolling targeted areas and sending out crime prevention advice via social media or in person when engaging with our local community.

To offer burglary crime prevention advice, to raise awareness amongst the local community. Following any burglaries on the ward, CCTV enquiries are to be carried out by the local safer neighbourhood team and crime prevention leaflets to be given to neighbouring properties. Targeted patrols to hotspot areas where burglary's have occurred.

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.