Barnes

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 Barnes@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 Barnes 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

Violent crime remains a top priority for the Barnes Safer Neighbourhood Team, specifically VAWG related offences and violence targeting school children around school finish times. Recent robberies around Lonsdale Road have been raised as a particular concern.

Targeted patrols during school finish times in areas known for issues. Crime Prevention advice to be given to Residents in relation to theft and robbery, with use of new Whatsapp channel to disseminate information.

Anti-Social Behaviour

Following recent incidents of begging in parts of Barnes as well as other reports of ASB around Hammersmith Bridge, this has been agreed as a ward priority to try and tackle incidents and identify perpetrators.

Hi-Visibility Patrols conducted around Castelnau and Hammersmith Bridge, particular focus on evening hours when footfall at its highest. Liaised with wardens on the bridge to identify any issues/concerns.

Burglary

After discussing the ward priorities at our recent Police Liaison Group Meeting it has been decided to put our third priority towards combatting burglary offences. Owing to the time of year there has been an increase in offences, residents have expressed concern and have chosen this as a priority for the area.

Targeted patrols in burglary hotspots. Neighbourhood engagement events have been held in areas that have had recent incidents of burglary, to provide reassurance and information on how residents can secure their property. Update - reassurance visits conducted at local businesses following recent increase in commercial burglaries, providing crime prevention advice and reassurance to business owners.

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.