Barnehurst

Welcome to Met Engage,

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

Rachael Jarman

Neighbourhood Inspector

Paul Quinney

Police Constable

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
Shoplifting/ASB focusing on Sainsburys and other local shops Issued 20 October 2026	Action taken: Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Patrols in the specific locations being targewtted and surrounding area's, identifying and targetting prolific offenders and prosecutions where appropriate and joint working with store security and business's focusing on crime reduction. With relation to engagement regular retailer visits and information sharing with local businesses alongside reassurance patrols for staff and customers and support retailers on evidence gathering and reporting. Where possible engagement with repeat offenders through intervention and referral pathways where suitable. Actioned 20 January 2027
Drug dealing/ASB in localities around Merewood Road, Winderemere Road, Hampton House, local shops and Barnehurst train station. Issued 20 October 2026	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 20 January 2027
Motor vehicle crime with relation to theft of motor vehicles Issued 20 October 2026	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. With relation to these offences officers regulalry engage with victims of motor vehicle crime and other residents as a way of target hardening and raising general awarness. Actioned 20 January 2027

Priority

Action taken

Shoplifting/ASB focusing on Sainsburys and other local shops

Issued 20 October 2026

Action taken:
Our team to increase patrols with a mixture of high visibility and plain clothes and where required enforcement and engagement. Patrols in the specific locations being targewtted and surrounding area's, identifying and targetting prolific offenders and prosecutions where appropriate and joint working with store security and business's focusing on crime reduction. With relation to engagement regular retailer visits and information sharing with local businesses alongside reassurance patrols for staff and customers and support retailers on evidence gathering and reporting.
Where possible engagement with repeat offenders through intervention and referral pathways where suitable.

Actioned 20 January 2027

Drug dealing/ASB in localities around Merewood Road, Winderemere Road, Hampton House, local shops and Barnehurst train station.

Issued 20 October 2026

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 20 January 2027

Motor vehicle crime with relation to theft of motor vehicles

Issued 20 October 2026

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. With relation to these offences officers regulalry engage with victims of motor vehicle crime and other residents as a way of target hardening and raising general awarness.

Actioned 20 January 2027

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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