South 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 SouthBalham@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 South 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

Description – Robbery centred around BALHAM HIGH ROAD SW17 & environs including TOOTING BEC COMMON.

Patrol and prevent and respond to reports of robbery, in particular of school children being dropped off after school. Dedicated Ward Officers conducted plain clothes and high visibility reassurance patrols to area of concern to deter any offending. Engaging with local residents listening to their concerns and giving Crime Prevention Advice around street robbery and personal safety. Robbery numbers on BALHAM HIGH ROAD are down while TOOTING BEC COMMON has seen an increase, further patrols to be dedicated there. Leafletting at hotspots and posting CPA on Social Media. All ward contacts on our mailing list receive monthly bulletins, which include regular updates on neighbourhood policing.

Volume crime TFMV

Priority Details – Motor vehicle thefts, theft from motor vehicle

Patrol and prevent and respond to reports of vehicle crime and provide crime prevention leaflet drops in those areas targeted by criminals. Analyse the crime report data to identify areas and times of greatest frequency and patrol to disrupt and deter car crime.

ASB

Anti-Social Behaviour reports of youths congregating in CORNFORD GROVE & LIITLE DIMMOCKS SW12, smoking in the stairwells and gathering on path outside of Homemead, residents state they feel intimidated. In addition, CORNFORD GROVE has been affected by noise nuisance, late night shouting, dog fouling and aggressive behaviour.

Officers to patrol and prevent and respond to reports of youths and certain residents engaging in ASB. In response to addressing ASB in local communities, DWOs will perform a number of patrols in order to deter and disrupt their behaviour and deal with any criminality we may come across. Engaging with local communities, intelligence led patrols, that are targeted in order to locate these individuals. Enforcement action, if appropriate stop & search will be carried out amongst this group. Housing associations being liaised with regarding concerns over behaviour of residents and ASB warning issued.

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.