Evelyn

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 Evelyn.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 Evelyn 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

To reduce Robbery & Mobile phone thefts across the ward through utilising various tactics such as proactive patrols.This includes tackling the spate of robberies and phone thefts along the corridor from Evelyn Street/Deptford High Street that is a huge concern for residents of Evelyn ward including the Cycle Superhighway C10.

Increase CCTV Camera opportunities in these areas. Lighting improvements. Increased patrols around commuter times. To implement proactive operations on the C10 Cycle Superhighway.

VAWG Patrols

To tackle ongoing Concerns from women and girls within the community regarding violence along the Thames footpath, Foreshore and Longshore SE8 . ASB issues are also occuring into the evenings at open spaces.

Weapons Sweeps to take place in open spaces and patrols of communal areas are to take place within communal areas of these blocks. Stop & searches to be carried where grounds exist.

Drugs ASB issues Pepys Estate Bembridge House & environs

Tackling ongoing drug use/supply across the ward. This will be done by tasked proactive patrols across the ward and intelligence led warrants. This includes Hi-visibility patrols of PEYPS PARK in regard to drug activity and ASB which has become a ward priority.

Increase weekly footpatrols of Blocks and walkways on the estate surrounding Daubeney Tower. To work with Lewisham Housing and carry out a timetable of visits to blocks to establish ASB in communal areas

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.