Forest Hill

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 ForestHill.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 Forest Hill 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

Drug Supply/Use - Issues with drug supply around Dartmouth Road and particular locations around there.

Police have been conducting numerous plain clothes and uniformed patrols in the area's of concern and conducted stops of suspects offenders. Arrests for Possession with Intent to Supply offences whereby they were imprisoned. Patrols will continue to be conducted in the area.

Theft of MV/Theft from MV

Motor Vehicle Crime including theft of and also theft from. There has been considerably concerning vehicle thefts in and around Ringmore Rise and surrounding roads. Officers conduct proactive plain clothes and uniformed patrols in the area and also hold regular street briefings with residents to discuss the issues.

Patrols continue to be conducted both as overt and covert. Officers are utilisng intelligence and local knowledge to target offenders and have also provided crime prevention signs in and around the local area. Police continue to push for CCTV at specific locations targeted.

Burglary

Burglary - Due to the time of year, Burglary often appears to increase around this time.

Crime prevention advise in regards to burglary is provided to residents and officers attend if a burglary has occured. Recent suspects had been identified for a spate of burglaries in the local area and enquiries continue in regards to these.

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.