Lavender

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 Lavender@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 Lavender 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

Robbery - Lavender Ward’s is to reduce the number of robberies occurring in St John’s Road and Northcote Road, SW11.

Research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders, work closely with partners to share intelligence and known offenders with relevant authorities. Hi-visibility patrols along with stop and searches will be conducted, we will have community engagement events during which we will offer crime prevention advice.

Burglary

To reduce the amount of residential burglaries occurring in Gowrie and Rush Hill Road, SW11

Research of intelligence system to identify locations for patrols and potential offenders operating in the area. We will provide high visibility patrols and promoting of crime prevention advice during our engagement events. We will aim to visit all victim of crimes and local residents to provide reassurance and crime prevention advice.

Anti-Social Behaviour - Begging

ASB are predominantly linked to street drinkers often congregate outside Clapham Junction Train Station & outside The Clapham Grand who are responsible for drunken related Anti-Social Behaviour. ASB linked to known beggars who often sit & openly beg outside Clapham Junction Train Station, St. Johns Road & St. Johns Hill.

High Visibility patrols to the locations identified to deter those committing Anti-Social Behaviour. Utilising Anti-Social Behaviour legislation to issue ASB warnings, Community Protection warnings and Community Protection Notices when appropriate.

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.