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.

Research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders. High visibility patrols and engagement with the public.

Theft from Motor Vehicles

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

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 are also being 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

Addressing theft taking place at local shops which may be linked to suspects carrying out such measures to assist in drug habbits. Regular patrols of identified hotspots and sources of drug related ASB. Visits to addresses subject to illegal importation reports.

High visibility patrols to identified locations and working closely with highlighted shops. Offering crime prevention advice to shops that are frequently targeted. 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.