Balham

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 Balham@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 Balham 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

There has been an increase in the number robbery targeting children attending Chestnut Grove Academy, the main areas are around Boundaries Road, Wandsworth Common Rail Station and Balham Tube Balham High Road.

Balham Ward officers and Safer Schools Officers are to engage and work with partners to conduct school visit to deliver personal safety talk with children, officers are to have engagement events with community safety officer in area whilst engaging and listening to the community concerns whilst providing crime prevention advice. Increase high visibility and plain clothes in the areas around Boundary Road, Wandsworth Common Rail Station and Balham Tube to deter ad detect with the aim of preventing offences and keeping the public safe.

** ASB **

Tackling ASB and drug related concerns in the area. Aggressive begging and rough sleepers in and around Balham.

Working in partnership with homeless charity SPEAR and partners to reduce and support the rough sleeper in Balham. Officers are to provide High Visibility patrols to these locations Anti-Social Behaviour to be identified and deterred. Utilising Anti-Social Behaviour legislation to issue ASB warnings, Community Protection warnings and Community Protection Notices where appropriate.

Burglary

Residential Burglaries throughout the ward with a focus on Nightingale Lane and surrounding area.

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.

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.