Nine Elms

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 NineElms@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 Nine Elms 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, Robberies have been a persistent issue around Battersea Park, this occasionally pushes its way on to Nine Elms Lane where there have been a number of late night high value robberies. This can be be tackled by an increase of crime awareness to the footfall around the robbery risk areas, increased visible and plain clothes patrols in these areas during the peak times. Multiple department operations involving units such as violent suppression unit.

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.

Theft of push bikes/Burglary parcel theft

There has been a high number of push bike thefts in the area, both from external locking points and Burglaries where push bikes kept inside a private area have been stolen. This issue will be tackled by visiting the hot spot area's, identifying any weakness in their security, check residents bikes if they are locked and how, inform residents to look out for tailgating etc., this has previously been effective with bike theft issues inside Riverlight court.

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 and bike owners.

ASB DRUG USE

ASB drug, mainly cannabis usage has been identified as an issue along Riverside Walk and Ponton road, this issue mainly presents itself around Lunchtime and evening times. This will be tackled by persistent high vis patrols around peak times and searching subjects where ground exist, occasional plain clothes patrols will also be arranged to target this.

High Visibility patrols to the locations identified to deter those committing Anti-Social Behaviour and using drugs. Use of stop & Search and arrest powers when appropriate .Utilising Anti-Social Behaviour legislation to issue ASN 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.