> Neighbourhood Policing

Chief Inspector

Alison Evans

London South Area

Holmes House

Holmes Terrace

London SE1 8BL

Tel: 0207 904 3510

Inspector Gordon Tait oversees Waterloo/London Bridge/Clapham/Richmond and Wimbledon NPTs
Inspector Craig Withers oversees Victoria Loop/LOROL/Bromley and Lewisham NPTs
Inspector Simon Trotter oversees Victoria Hub NPT
Inspector Ioannou oversees Croydon NPT

Neighbourhood policing is at the fore front of modern day policing. Actively engaging our communities and local partners on a day to day basis; provides us not only with the opportunity to deliver a reassuring presence but also assists us with effectively addressing their needs on a bespoke basis.

Through liaison with our communities and partners, we are able to create profiles of local problems and tackle them using an intelligent targeted response. This enables us not just to arrest those responsible, but to actively tackle the root causes. Since the introduction of Neighbourhood teams, there has been an immediate and regular fall in crime.

There are currently twelve Neighbourhood Policing Teams on London South’s Inner London sector.

Three Mainline Neighbourhood Policing Teams were established on our Mainline Termini at Victoria, Waterloo and London Bridge (also covering Charing Cross) in 2005, and they proved to be an immediate success, crime having fallen every year since. Our working relationship with the communities on these stations, including passengers, staff, retail tenants and other businesses has never been better, and whilst crime has fallen, confidence has grown, which proves that Neighbourhood Policing, dealing with local issues with dedicated local officers, does work. A fourth NPT Team has since been established, also based at London Bridge, with responsibility for policing the First Capital Connect (FCC) line of route.

In May 2010, the Victoria NPT entered into a new era of seamless policing with its transformation into as HUB Team. With this, came the responsibility for the policing of the underground which was supported by Officers transferring to London South from the London Underground Area. The extension of the policing footprint unequivocally provides a more holistic service to our community. This concept was extended to Waterloo a few months later and I am pleased to say that already we are seeing a positive improvement to the policing response within each HUB team.

Further growth in the summer of 2006 saw the introduction of the Metro Teams based at Victoria, with responsibility for policing the Victoria to London Bridge ‘Inner Loop’, and at Lewisham where to this day close liaison exists with South-eastern Railway. Both Teams worked proactively with the local communities and our partners to increase the detection of crime on their lines of route, particularly low level offences such as anti social behaviour, setting the standard of behaviour that the community are entitled to expect. After an initial increase in crime that the Team detected, overall crime has since fallen, including, for example a drop in robberies on the Lewisham line of seventy percent. Passenger’s perception of safety has increased, as has the number of passengers using the lines of route. The clear successes enjoyed by these Teams led to the establishment of further NPT`s at Bromley, Wimbledon, Richmond, Clapham, Croydon and most recently at Norwood Junction, where the new London Overground line exists.

Our Neighbourhood teams will be happy to speak to any of their communities while out on patrol however if you are unable to speak to one, each of our teams organises regular Passenger Surgeries and Police and Community Together (PACT) meetings which are specifically designed to provide a forum for our communities and partners to engage with us.

Below is a list of each site covered by a team. Please click on the link below or in the task bar to the left to take you to your local team.

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