Crime in Merton Park, Merton

Officers have been completing both visible and plain clothed patrols in Morden Town Centre, targeting theft and violent crime.

This work has lead to a decrease in theft offences.
SW BCU Policing area has the lowest robbery rate across London and the highest percentage of robberies solved across all of London.
A 43.5% reduction in retail theft over the last 5 months in Morden Town Centre (18.4% decrease year on year)

Shoplifting offences do continue to occur, as a team we will continue to run operations in the town centre, both ourselves and working with council teams on days of action to target theft offences
So far we have run two operations in the Morden area, leading to the arrests and charges of 6 offenders as well as other disposals such as on the spot fines or banning notices for other offenders not suitable for arrest

PCSO's have been completing re-assurance and crime prevention patrols to areas where there have been burglaries on the ward.

Local officers will conduct enquiries around offences, looking for any evidential leads such as CCTV and analysing offences to see if any linked series are occurring with a similar pattern.

We are also currently running an operation in the local area targeting burglary and motor vehicle crime, if you notice any suspicious behaviours please also report these to us so we can make the best use of our resources and focus on those looking to commit crime.

ASB is an on-going local concern in parks and open spaces.
There has been a decrease in the number of reported incidents of such behaviours over the recent winter months, this often happens with colder and wetter weather, however as we move towards the spring this picture can change.

Local officers will continue to patrol parks and open spaces and combat criminality and Anti-social behaviour in those locations where present.
We will work in partnership with council ASB officers in affected areas to route out any identified concerns and identify those responsible, and use preventative legislation (via the early intervention scheme) to reduce anti-social behaviour.