Sydenham

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 Sydenham.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 Sydenham 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 and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a corporate, MPS wide priority.

Violence with injury and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a corporate, MPS wide priority. Levels of violent offences are low in Sydenham particularly outside of domestic settings. Sydenham has a number of bail and probation addresses where offenders are housed. SNT officers will target the enforcement of bail conditions, recalls to prison, and breach of licences by violent offenders and reduce the number of wanted violent offenders on the ward. This will be reviewed on 16/04/2025

ASB

Begging outside supermarkets.

SYDENHAM HIGH STREET is a hot spot for ASB in SYDENHAM due to the relatively high footfall. ASB will be addressed through initial engagement to encourage perpetrators out of this behaviour. Where engagement fails ASB legislation will be used to issue warnings. Where there is community support Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and Notices (CPNs) will be utilised to address behaviour.

Shoplifting

Shops on SYDENHAM HIGH STREET have reported high levels of shoplifting in particular from a small number of prolific offenders.

This priority will be addressed by identifying offenders for pro-active arrest using CCTV, and joint police and commercial systems. Where prolific offenders are identified they will be targeted for Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) to address anticipated future offending.

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.