Crayford

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 Crayford.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 Crayford 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

This relates to violence against Women and girls.

Violence reduction is the number one aim across the Metropolitan Police. Your team will conduct high visibility patrols and undertake specific tasks aropund the local train station and hubs and also the retail park and surrounding areas with regards engagement and fact finding with females. this will include local commuters and women that live and work in the localities.

ASB Crayford Town Centre

This relates to Crayford retail park and the adjacent residential are of Townhall square. There has been a constant and some increase in general ASB in the majority of cases by groups of youths relating to thefts, bad behaviour towards staff and re Town hall Square drug misuse. This will also focus on Christmas crime prevention around shopping safely

Our team to increase patrols and thereby doing enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups and individuals and looking at home visits and where necessary enforcement through CPNW and other methods. Engagment with businesses in the retail park and also engagment with residents of Town Hall Square. Where any residents of Town hall Square are identified as being anti-social working with partners to deal. If there are any issues within the Estate bringing this to the attention of Pea body. The team are working in conjuntion with the design out crime team with the process of undertaking an Environmental visual Audit

Drug dealing & ASB to focus on hotpsot locations

Been informed by local residents of concerns around local drug concerns around ASB and alleged drug dealing in the locality.

Our team to increase patrols and thereby doing enforcement and engagement. Identifying groups and individuals and looking at home visits and where necessary enforcement through CPNW and other methods. Locations identified via local residents and crime mapping which will focus the teams efforts and patrols around enforcement. This will include Iron Mill Lne, Old Road, Crayford Town centre and locality.

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.