South Acton

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 speak to your local team about policing issues, and find out how you can get involved, you can email them at SouthActon@met.police.uk.

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.

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 Acton 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

The ward survey identified two locations within the ward where the fear of violence was greater within the local community. One such location is the area surrounding the junction of Bollo Bridge Road with Strafford Road. Our response is to adopt hotspot policing tactics over the next 3 months to deter violence, anti-social behaviour and other forms of criminality. We will use crime/ASB reporting data to target our patrols at peak times. We will provide an update to the panel of the number, frequency and duration of patrols supported by mapping data.

Priority details to be circulated to ward panel and local community via relevant contacts and communication platforms.

Parcel Theft

Upon reviewing the crime data supplied by police, an area was highlighted as experiencing a higher levels of parcel theft from communal areas of blocks (burglary). The panel therefore decided the team should focus patrols in this area for the next 3 months, and where possible work partners to find a long term solution. The treatment area will be Enfield Road, Streamdale Road, Hanbury Road, Osbourne Road and Whelan Road. The approach will be hotspot policing tactics, these were very effective when used in a different area of South Acton suffering similar issues. The panel will be updated with details of the frequency, duration and time spent within the specified area, which will be supported with mapping data.

Priority details to be circulated to ward panel and local community via relevant contacts and communication platforms. 03/02/25 - 30 mins high visibility patrol conducted in hotspot area. Blocks were checked for security and engaged with multiple residents regarding crime prevention

Drug use and associated ASB

Following a review of the data collected from the online ward survey, panel noted that Berrymead Gardens was the area where the fear of crime was greatest within the local community, specifically concerns over drug use and supply and associated ASB. The panel therefore decided to set this location as a priority for the next 3 months. The police response will be to utilise hotspot policing tactics aimed at providing a visible police presence, to deter/disrupt those engaged in crime/ASB and to reassure the local community. The panel will be updated regarding the frequency, duration and time spent within this area, supported by mapping data.

Priority details to be circulated to ward panel and local community via relevant contacts and communication platforms. 12/02/25 - Patrol carried out around Berrymead Gardens W3. No issues found during patrols.

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.