Furzedown

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 Furzedown@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 Furzedown 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

As part of our borough Priority; we are targeting Violence Related Crimes. This can include domestic incidents to robberies. Officers will be conducting patrols and taking calls in order to protect victims and secure evidence, in order to bring prosecution to those who commit these crimes.

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 the community.

TFMV/ MV Intereference

Police have been getting numerous reports regarding vehicle crime around the Furzedown Area. There are no specific targets that police have noticed. However in response to this, police will be finding out what specifically has been taken in regards to theft of and theft from motor vehicles and establishing a pattern of target, and to identify those committing the crimes.

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 residents.

Drugs

Concerns were raised by the community about drug dealing within the area of Furzedown. In response to this officers will perform a number of targeted patrols over the next three months, specifically but not exclusively around Furzedown Rec and Mitcham Lane where more detailed issues have been highlighted.

Heightened patrols took place at targeted times, resulting in a number of initial arrests for drug dealing. In addition, partners have been engaged for any drug rehabilitation services that can be offered within the area more specifically. Officers will continue to find innovative ways to tackle this problem over the following month to ensure no reoccurrence, but we ask the public to report any signs of potential drug dealing, no matter how small it may seem. If any community members would also like to be part of a walk-along patrol to discuss this issue, please use the contact forms on this site.

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.