Wandsworth Town

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Wandsworth Town Safer Neighbourhoods Team

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 WandsworthTown@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).

Lucas Arnold

Police Constable

Alexandra Creti

PCSO

Mukith Miah

Dedicated Ward Officer

Samuel Simmons

Sergeant

Alicja Sznajder

Police Constable

Sam Williams

PCSO

Local Priority Issues

We are committed to tackling the issues that matter most to local communities. Based on our conversations with residents, and the issues they have raised with us, our main priorities are:

Priority	Action taken
Violence Against Person - Drugs and Knife crime in around Poplin Apartments and Burial Ground. Issued 29 April 2026	Utilising up to date data analysis to identify specific areas and offenders of concern directs our patrols. High visibility patrols as well as organised weapon sweeps will be conducted. We will proactively engage persons suspected of criminality via the use of stop search where grounds exist and is appropriate and proportionate to do so. We are already working in partnership with Wandsworth Council Community Safety Officer on crime reduction strategies which include the use of ASB legislation, youth engagement bus and regular contact with local places of education via our Child and Young Person officer. Issues in relation to young people of concern are discussed at a fortnightly professionals meeting whilst wider longer term matters are discussed at Senior Leadership level at a quarterly Youth Board chaired by the neighbourhood Superintendent. Actioned 27 July 2026
Anti-social Behaviour & Shoplifting To reduce ASB offences and shoplifting offences within the shopping centre and Garratt Lane area. Retail crime (shoplifting, assaults against staff and criminal damage) have increased year on year. In line with the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, these crime types and associated issues such as begging, homelessness and sustance misuse will be treated as a priority. Issued 29 April 2026	Officers arealready working directly with the shopping centre management company and retailers to identify offenders via joint proactive patrols and sharing of CCTV images via an online retail platform. Identified persons are arrested for substantiated offences or issued with ASB legislation eg; Community Protection Notices (CPN) and Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO). Officers will continue to focus on high street crime via OPERATION RETAIL which encompasses greater collaboration with businesses. Op Slaven a Wandsworth borough wide initiative which ran between April and June led to 22 arrests and over 30 stop searches across Wandsworth, with six arrests being made in Southside Centre. Actioned 27 July 2026
Anti-social Behaviour Increase in summer ASB at Ram Quarter relating to the Night Time Economy. *EMERGING ISSUE* With recent warm sunshine and long summer evenings, there has been a marked increase in reports of ASB from within the Ram Quarter. In support of Wandsworth Summer plans, this will be treated as a priority in the upcoming weeks. Issued 29 April 2026	Proactive patrols will be deployed in the area identifying persons and premises of concern. We will be working with colleagues from the police & council licensing departments ensuring that responsible management of premises is adhered to. (Music noise levels, outdoor seatng provision, table service etc is reduced at a reasonable time). National strategies such as Challenge 25 & Ask for Angela will be tested. Spot checks on SIS holders will be made to ensure customers are protected whilst general ASB such as drunkenness and public urination will be robustly dealt with. Actioned 27 July 2026

Priority

Action taken

Violence Against Person - Drugs and Knife crime in around Poplin Apartments and Burial Ground.

Issued 29 April 2026

Utilising up to date data analysis to identify specific areas and offenders of concern directs our patrols. High visibility patrols as well as organised weapon sweeps will be conducted. We will proactively engage persons suspected of criminality via the use of stop search where grounds exist and is appropriate and proportionate to do so.
We are already working in partnership with Wandsworth Council Community Safety Officer on crime reduction strategies which include the use of ASB legislation, youth engagement bus and regular contact with local places of education via our Child and Young Person officer. Issues in relation to young people of concern are discussed at a fortnightly professionals meeting whilst wider longer term matters are discussed at Senior Leadership level at a quarterly Youth Board chaired by the neighbourhood Superintendent.

Actioned 27 July 2026

Anti-social Behaviour & Shoplifting
To reduce ASB offences and shoplifting offences within the shopping centre and Garratt Lane area.
Retail crime (shoplifting, assaults against staff and criminal damage) have increased year on year. In line with the Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee, these crime types and associated issues such as begging, homelessness and sustance misuse will be treated as a priority.

Issued 29 April 2026

Officers arealready working directly with the shopping centre management company and retailers to identify offenders via joint proactive patrols and sharing of CCTV images via an online retail platform. Identified persons are arrested for substantiated offences or issued with ASB legislation eg; Community Protection Notices (CPN) and Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO).

Officers will continue to focus on high street crime via OPERATION RETAIL which encompasses greater collaboration with businesses. Op Slaven a Wandsworth borough wide initiative which ran between April and June led to 22 arrests and over 30 stop searches across Wandsworth, with six arrests being made in Southside Centre.

Actioned 27 July 2026

Anti-social Behaviour
Increase in summer ASB at Ram Quarter relating to the Night Time Economy.

***EMERGING ISSUE***

With recent warm sunshine and long summer evenings, there has been a marked increase in reports of ASB from within the Ram Quarter. In support of Wandsworth Summer plans, this will be treated as a priority in the upcoming weeks.

Issued 29 April 2026

Proactive patrols will be deployed in the area identifying persons and premises of concern. We will be working with colleagues from the police & council licensing departments ensuring that responsible management of premises is adhered to. (Music noise levels, outdoor seatng provision, table service etc is reduced at a reasonable time). National strategies such as Challenge 25 & Ask for Angela will be tested. Spot checks on SIS holders will be made to ensure customers are protected whilst general ASB such as drunkenness and public urination will be robustly dealt with.

Actioned 27 July 2026

The word cloud below represents the issues raised by residents through their Local Matters survey. We take this into consideration along with discussions with stakeholders, ward panel meetings and conversations with the public when setting our key priorities

What members in Wandsworth Town are saying are the issues in the area:

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