Downham

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 Downham.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 Downham 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

Issues linked to drug related activity and the associated violence that goes with this within the ward. IVORYDOWN, GARETH GROVE, LAUNCELOT ROAD

Local patrols and engagement across the ward to be carried out. Targeting where there are reports of drug dealing and misuse. Liaising with residents to gather intelligence. Liaising with housing associations to combat problem addresses. Plain clothes and uniformed patrols. Weapons sweeps of linked areas. Working in partnership with other police departments and partner agencies. Stop and search

Retail Theft / Drug usage

Tackling high level of shoplifting along the shops of Downham Way in the vicinity of Downham Tavern.

This priority will be addressed by identifying offenders for pro-active arrest using CCTV, and joint police and commercial systems. Covert patrols will also be undertaken and there will be an increase of stop and search in the area. Where prolific offenders are identified they will be targeted for Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) to address anticipated future offending.

ASB

Tackling ongoing ASB issues with street drinkers, noise issues, rowdy and inconsiderate behaviour and Drug related activity in and around Downham Way and Galahad Road

Regular visible targeted patrols to take place in and around these areas covering various shift times. Engagement with local businesses and local residents on the area to encourage a community assisted approach. To liase with partner agencies as the local council, ASB Team to ensure a multi agency approach is taken to tackling ongoing problem including joint patrols with outreach teams and rough sleeper teams e.t.c. Issuing Community Protection Warnings/Notices.

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.