Merton Park

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 contact to your team about local policing issues, email us at MertonPark@contact.metengage.co.uk or pick an officer to email below. (Please do not use this contact method to report crime, in an emergency always call 999 or 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 Merton Park 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

Robbery, theft & Violence in Morden Town Centre, patrols to increase during late turn shifts to deter robbery, theft & violent crime

Officers have been carrying out high visibility patrols and Operations in Morden Town Centre to detect, deter and reduce Violence and Robbery offences. Officers have also undertaken proactive plain clothes patrols in the area. The area is also patrolled by intelligence led, Op Nightingale, which operates on targeted crime hotspots in a given area.

ASB/Rowdy behaviour/Drugs in parks/open spaces

Complaints regarding ASB/Rowdy behaviour/Drugs in Parks has increased, to combat this Merton Park SNT will increase uniformed and plain clothed patrols in our open spaces. There is a focus around John Innes Park where a number of ASB reports have been made

Merton Park Safer Neighbourhood Team have been carrying out patrols in the John Innes Park and Mostyn Park to deter ASB and drug abuse in our open spaces. Officers have encountered drugs offences and anti-social behaviour which is policed proportionately. Merton Park SNT continue working hard for the residents of Merton Park and are committed to deterring and cutting crime.

Burglary

Burglary within Merton Park ward continues and to help reduce this problem Hi visibility patrols will continue within burglary hotspots. Residents will be offered crime prevention surveys, these will be advertised on Social Media, ACE, Ward surgeries and public meetings.

Officers attached to Merton Park Safer Neighbourhood Team having been conducting high visibility and plain clothes proactive patrols in the various burglary hotspots, indicated by MPS intelligence systems. Officers have been visiting victims of crime and offering crime prevention advice. Officers also leaflet houses in the vicinity of the burglary to offer crime prevention advice, warn residents of a burglary and to secure property, speak to potential witnesses and possibly view CCTV to ascertain whether footage could be used as evidence to identify offenders.

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.