Kew

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 Kew@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 Kew 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

Tackling drug dealing and drug use across the ward.

We research our intelligence systems daily to proactively respond to crime trends and identify locations for high visibility patrols, deterring potential offenders from committing crime. We have carried out drug warrants at identified addresses, making arrests both for possession of drugs and on suspicion of supply offences. We have applied for increased temporary CCTV systems to be installed by Richmond Council to monitor areas of concern, and to deter offending in these areas.

We are working with the local authority and housing associations to obtain closure orders for addresses linked to this priority, and engaging with partners to ensure that all possible opportunities to reduce offending are identified.

Theft from Motor Vehicles

Tackling motor vehicle crimes (in particular thefts from cars) resulting from increased visitors in the area due to seasonal events, especially around Kew Gardens.

We conduct research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders. High visibility patrols and promoting of crime prevention through social media and engagement with owners of vehicles at highest risk. A number of street briefings have taken place to offer residents crime prevention advice as well as the introduction of the new Met WhatsApp channel allowing officers to communicate information to residents. 

Theft - Drug related 

We are addressing theft taking place at local shops which may be linked to suspects carrying out such measures to assist in drug habits. We are conducting daily patrols of identified hotspots and sources of drug related ASB. We have conducted investigations involving addresses subject to illegal importation reports received by Border Force.

We have made arrests of a number of prolific shoplifting offenders, and have identified a persistent offender in relation to a number of shop burglaries over the last week working with South West Burglary team, who we are actively seeking to arrest. 
 

We are conducting high visibility patrols daily when on duty to identified locations and working closely with highlighted shops. We offer crime prevention advice to shops that are frequently targeted, and working with other Safer Neighbourhood teams and Volume Crime team 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.