Bellingham

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 bellingham.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 Bellingham 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 with Injury offences - Met Wide

Levels of violent offences are low in Bellingham particularly outside of domestic settings. From local knowledge and from informal reports I believe the area around Dunfield road is where people feel least safe SNT officers will engage with members of the public to encourage the use of the Street Safe tool to anonymously record the areas of Bellingham in which they feel least safe and why.

Anti-Social Behaviour

Largely drug related and begging in the Bell Green Retail Park

This area has a begging issue around Sainsbury’s and some of the other businesses in the retail park which also incorporates the use of drugs Shop fronts have also been damaged on a number of occasions by youths during school holidays The team are in contact with local businesses in the retail park, and are continuing to patrol the area on foot, covert, and mobile

Theft from Motor Vehicle

Spate of catalytic converter thefts led to increased reporting of TFMV offences. Officers to patrol and look to deter.

The team have come across numerous LOS vehicles across all parts of the ward as well as number discarded Number plates To combat this the team ensure to be out as a visible presence to deter any further TFMV/TOMV on the ward. The team also patrol hotspots where cars have been discarded previous in an attempt to recover as many stolen vehicles as possible

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.