Below is a message from Police Sergeant Tony Brown….
Since I have taken over as the Ward Sergeant I am shocked at the amount of calls and emails from residents reporting both crimes in progress, past crimes and Anti social behaviour to the ward phones (which will be decommissions very soon) and ward email boxes. My team of officers and staff is very low at the moment, with two more officers hopefully joining us by the end of the year. With entitled annual leave, course and operational abstractions due to ULEZ camera issues, Protests in central London and back filling Emergency response teams these phones and emails are not checked for days.
Please could you help me in passing the message that ALL reports regardless of the issues, ASB and or Crimes regardless when happened MUST either be reported online via the Met police website or over the phone by calling 101 for non-emergency or 999 for emergency.
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If the residents have the time to send a detailed email I am sure they could complete a short online reporting form, which logs the incident, send to be triaged and someone will complete a report and if an ASB local issue should be sent to me to review and allocate.
I feel together as a community we can do great things, but the local residents whom continue to send emails and phone the ward phone are feeling unheard due to the way they are not reporting correctly, and feel that were not listening.
Thank you for listening and I hope that together we can reduce ASB and Crimes on the Ward.
Best wishes,
Police Sergeant Tony Brown LCGI
PS 408SN
(Licentiateship City & Guilds Institute – Leadership & Management)
Tony Brown 408SN | Police Sergeant | Darwin & Biggin Hill SNT | South Area BCU | TP | Metropolitan Police Service