Police liaison

The last meeting with the Forest Hill Safer Neighbourhood team took place on 14th December.  We learnt that PC Ashton has been promoted to sergeant and will be transferring to Greenwich, so we will be one PC short for the time being.  We are also one police community support officer (PSCO) short until at least March.

In the last four weeks, burglaries in Forest Hill are up by 15% compared to the same period last year.  This was in spite of the heavier than expected prison sentences given to the rioters in August last year.

Crime cascade
I explained that the Association’s current system was being reviewed because of the time taken to alert members of criminal activities in and around the Estate.  It is now proposed that information will be e-mailed to members who have provided e-mail addresses to our Memberschip Secretary so that it can be circulated far more quickly.  The police were asked to contact the Association should the need arise to dissiminate information urgently.  However, they do not have the resources to do so, and suggested that we access the police database regularly to gather whatever information we feel is useful.

Elaine Pringle

  The Safer Neighbourhoods (SN) for the Forest Hill Ward currently comprise of three police officers (PS Dominic Taylor, PC Tom Furey, and PC Joff Coupe), and two Police Community Support Officers, based at Sydenham Police Station.   We are in addition to other police units and, as your local team, will not be taken away from that area for other duties: we are here to work solely with you, in the community, to increase public reassurance and help make people feel safer within their neighbourhood.   The SN programme has the backing of the GLA and the MPA, and is being led from the very top of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).   It is the most important growth programme in the MPS, and the Commissioner has explicitly stated that it is his ambition for the Service.   This represents a major change in the style of policing for London, and affords local communities a real opportunity to influence the policing of their area.   We can be contacted on 24 hour answerphone (8284 5225), but of course call 999 for anything that needs urgent police attendance.

http://www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods

foresthill.snt@met.police.uk

Sydenham Police Station

179 Dartmouth Road

Sydenham

SE26 4RN

0208 721 2723