West Dulwich Safer Neighbourhood Panel Meeting Wednesday 16th July at 19:00 @ Peabody Hall plus other news

From: Philip Virgo as Development Lead for Neighbourhood Watch, also Chair West Dulwich SNP. 

To Neighbourhood Watch members in: Chancellor Grove, Chestnut Road, Clive Road, Croxted, Eastmearn, Idmiston, Chatsworth and Ardlui, Lancaster Avenue and Lavengro, Lovelace, Robson, Rosendale Gardens Estate and Rosendale Road Central   

Copy: West Dulwich Safer Neighbourhood Team  WestDulwich@met.police.uk

This is to remind your that the next West Dulwich SNP meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th July at 19:00 @ Peabody Hall - 147 Peabody Cottages, Peabody Estate,  Rosendale Road, London, SE24 9DR

The current Agenda is: 

Please e-mail the Secretary on wdsnpsecretary@gmail.com with anything you wish to raise. 

Launch of Met Engage in West Dulwich 

Met Engage and Neighbourhood Watch use the same platform  and I expect to meet with PCSO Middleton before the SNP meeting to discuss how to work together on a street by street, estate by estate exercise to ensure that the team have contacts across the ward for whenever incidents occur. I will wish to call on you to help with regard to your street. 

You may have noticed that the Alert system allows you to sign up for a variety of services, including Get Safe On-line, Fraud Alert, Emergency services and other types of group - Road Watch, Dog watch, Cycle Watch etc.. Please take a look at your entry and sign up for all that is of interest. I will be making the same request across Lambeth to get critical mass in addressing issues of common concern.       

Arrest of local sex offender 

Sgt Zissler has informed Dulwich Village SNP that Dulwich Wood SNT have arrested a man in respect of the sexual assaults in Belair Park, Dulwich Woods and Dulwich Park and Southwark Police are furthering the investigation. He thanked the community for their assistance during this period.

Arrest of local car thieves 

Extract from Lambeth Borough Commander’s newsletter last week: "West Dulwich Ward has a problem with Theft of Motor Vehicles (TOMV) and Theft from Motor Vehicles (TFMV), as a result of this PC WACHOWICZ who is the ward officer with the assistance of PC Blake from CID Proactive put together an Operation to help address the vehicle crimes on the ward.

The Operation was conducted during the nights of 27th June 2025 and 28th June 2025 which was supervised by PS Ofosu- Siaw; but led by PC WACHOWICZ. She was assisted by PC Blake, APS Singer-Ripley, PC Luck, PC Rodi, PC Lundi, PC Ahmet, PS Perkins, PC Hodkinson, PC Paulino and PC Ingold who had two arrests in one shift and managed to arrest the main suspect, while committing an offence.

The three suspects were in company of other 2 individuals in a vehicle parked outside properties, causing issues for the residents. Three knives were found during a search so they were arrested for possession of offensive weapon.

Officers are still working hard to reduce the crime in the local area and are planning further operation regarding this."

Collation of Video Footage

The Doorbell Detectives - BBC iPlayer is now available to view. It was produced with inputs from Neighbourhood Watch participants across England and Wales but des not appear to have been officially endorsed or publicised – presumably to avoid police being inundated with unusable footage.. 

If you have footage you should call  999 if the incident is in progress or report on-line and then e-mail the local team with a link to the crime report and description of the footage you have. They can then send you a link to upload footage for collation. The e-mail for West Dulwich is WestDulwich@met.police.uk

I look forward to providing more detailed guidance but that will depend on receiving authoritative guidance or finding volunteers to help develop, test and document our own. I would prefer to avoid this. 

Lambeth Police Summer Camp 

Most of the West Norwood PCSOs will be involved with delivering the Lambeth Police Summer Camp from  22nd July to 14th August at Oasis St Martins Village (formerly st Martins Girls School), 155 Tulse Hill, SW2   

Booking details can be found here OUR PROJECTS | lspt1  . 

Sponsorship details, including how to contribute by bank transfer or cheque are here SPONSORSHIP | lspt1

Volunteering details are here SPONSORSHIP | lspt1