Upcoming Christmas activities: Saturday 8th December, Christmas tree Switch on event at Forest Hill station & Kirkdale from 4pm
Minutes:
SNT Update:
|
|
July 2017-Sep 2017 |
July 2018-Sep 2018 |
% |
|
Theft + Handling |
75 |
120 |
60 |
|
Violence vs person |
86 |
83 |
-3 |
|
Burglary |
33 |
30 |
-9 |
|
Crim dam |
15 |
23 |
53 |
|
Robbery |
12 |
14 |
16 |
|
Drugs |
5 |
8 |
60 |
|
Sexual Offences |
5 |
7 |
40 |
|
Total crimes |
237 |
289 |
22 |
Crime Stats for the last three (3) months;
Burglary
Kemal.Babaoglu from the SNT asked people to ensure their sheds and garages are secured with approved locks. These offences are sporadic in nature. If anyone needs any advice on suitable locks or crime prevention in general, they can contact us and this can be arranged.
Robbery
There has been a very slight increase in the number of reported robbery incidents within Forest Hill over the last three months.
Violence against the person
The number of reported crimes involving violence over the last three months is noticeably down compared to the previous reporting period.
Theft of and theft from motor vehicle
There has been an increase of reported theft on the ward. The team have conducted numerous night duties and five separate individuals have been arrested. The proactive approach will continue.
Theft person
Unfortunately, there has been a slight increase in the number of reported offences compared to the previous reporting period.
Criminal damage
Again, an increase in the number of reported allegations made to police compared to the previous reporting period.
Total notifiable offences
22% increase in crime from the same period last year. A number of reasons can be the cause of this, firstly being that more crime gets reported to police with internet reporting becoming more regular, less officers on the street with more abstractions, crime can naturally rise.
Millennium Gardens and Town Centre
We have received several complaints from local residents living near to Millennium Gardens over anti-social behaviour and suspected drugs activity in the green to complaints of begging in the Town Centre. We have been doing a lot of work around these subjects and have identified two persons being responsible, we believe for the ASB in both locations. One of the individuals has recently been to court after being charged for several different offences and has been served with a community order. We will continue to deal with ASB, predominately in the town centre as it arises.
Regarding the ASB and drug taking in Millennium Gardens, if found committing offences, those involved could be dealt with in much the same way as previously stated for those begging. Those believed to be involved in drug taking are stop and searched regularly, if we have grounds to search at the time.
We have also had complaints from local residents with regards to these individuals setting up tents in the Millennium Green, these have now been removed from the location.
Summary
The SNT are tasked every three months by our ward panel, the members being representatives of the Forest Hill Community, to deal with specific problems affecting the community. Our last Ward Panel meeting was in September and the promises set were to raise awareness for Burglary, antisocial behaviour with motorists and antisocial behaviour in the town centre.
The team have been running a number of different operations including plain clothes patrols during night duties to tackle theft & burglary offenders and traffic operations to try and reduce the amount of vehicle offences on the ward. These operations will continue sporadically over the next several months with the aim of reducing crime.
Any complaints or questions can be forwarded to us either in person by ringing 020 8721 2723 or by e-mailing the team on ForestHill.SNT@met.police.uk
Upcoming Christmas activities: Saturday 8th December, Christmas
tree Switch on event at Forest Hill station & Kirkdale from 4pm