Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham
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Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham 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 MottinghamColdharbour&NewEltham@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).
Benjamin Edgar
Inspector
David Glock
PCSO
Bradley Hayden
Police Constable
Al Hollis
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 |
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Drug usage/concerns about dealing. Issued 10 January 2026 |
Robust action is being taken against drug users and anyone suspected of dealing. Intelligence is being acted on and my teams are proactively hunting those responsible. Multiple offenders have been caught and charged with drug offences by using both proactive and reactive tactics. My officers are patrolling at different times, in different places, led by precision data. Stop and search will continue to form part of the disruption tactics as well as ASB legislation in support of Misuse of Drugs Act powers to ensure that those using or dealing drugs are not able to operate in the area. A multi agency approach is ongoing with referrals supporting users and the strongest possible action in law being taken against those dealing/supplying. My team will continue to disrupt and frustrate any drug related operations in your area. Since our last update, we will continue to execute drug warrants following on from the intelligence that we are provided and publish the results. Actioned 14 April 2026 |
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Residents would like more input from the team surrounding crime prevention advice relating to burglary following the recent increase in burglaries in certain areas of the ward. Issued 10 January 2026 |
Conduct engagement with the ward communities to reduce the fear of crime and offer crime prevention advice. Officers to conduct regular high visibility patrols in these areas as well as plain clothes patrols with the aim to to identify and prosecute those responsible. Rolling out Met engage liaison to expand on information sharing. Since the last update, the team continue to engage and conduct more doorstep chats to listen to any concerns. If you'd like us to visit or you have any information, you can either speak to us in person or report completely anonymously on Crimestoppers @ https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ -Your anonymity is guaranteed via crimestoppers. Actioned 14 April 2026 |
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Motor Vehicles,(theft and damage related offences) Issued 10 January 2026 |
My team have been hard at work collating precision crime data and using this to inform their patrols. Stop and search of both persons and vehicles is ongoing and is a strong tactic in disrupting this type of crime. Identification of witnesses and intelligence has been obtained and acted upon by officers. I have tasked my officers to carry out both high visibility and covert patrols to include side streets and target areas as per the data. My team are always on the hunt for any information to assist us in combatting this crime type. This action is ongoing and we urge any residents to report anything suspicious to us to help us in building a bigger intelligence picture. Actioned 14 April 2026 |
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 Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham are saying are the issues in the area:
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