Longlands

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 Longlands.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 Longlands 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

Violence against person. Focused on Women and youths - High visibility patrols of the ward from dusk focusing on transport hubs and night time economy areas.

Request made to SNB for VAWG kits and event to be held at Bird College Extra VAWG patrols conducted at the end of early shifts to cover local college finishing times.

Burglary

Autumn / Winter nights see increase in residential Burglaries. High visibility patrols of hot spots, door to door and CCTV enquiries aimed to be completed 24 hours after the crime occurred (shifts allowing), crime prevention events and street briefings.

Areas to be cocooned and reassurance visits completed as and when burglaries occur. Street Briefings also to be arranged and conducted by PCSO in the locality. Hi-Vis patrols throughout the ward and in particular the areas affected.

MV Crime

Theft of MV including Keyless offences and TFMV including Catalytic converters Theft of (keyless vehicles) and Theft from including Catalytic Converters by way of crime prevention events, stalls, door to door enquiries, street briefings and Operations (E.g. Operation Huntsman, Operation Golden Hook).

Joint MV proactive operations alongside Kent Police. Tool marking events at local DIY stores. CP advice via Social media and KIN emails. Routine vin checks on high risk vehicles parked at a certain location on the ward where stolen vehicles have previously been found. Intel work and monitoring being conducted on Local MV suspect.

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.