Woolwich Arsenal

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 WoolwichArsenal.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 Woolwich Arsenal 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

Reduce violent crime on the ward especially around VAWG. Hold regular stalls promoting woman's safety around Woolwich town centre. Work closely with SE command VAWG spoc especially around Walk and Talk

Priorities have been actioned by the Ward officers as per Priorities Ward panel meeting July 2024

Safety in Open Spaces

Focus patrols around Open Spaces, Arthur Grove & surrounding estate

Priorities have been actioned by the Ward officers as per Priorities Ward panel meeting July 2024

Drug related ASB

By regularly checking and updating intelligence reports to combat drug related ASB on the ward also working with our partner agency's. Designing out crime in areas with ongoing drug related ASB by consulting DOCO.

Priorities have been actioned by the Ward officers as per Priorities Ward panel meeting July 2024

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.