Our local police response team, in co-operation with a Met bomb squad team, detonated a controlled explosion on Streatham Common this morning. The explosion, witnessed by Lee Alley and friends, was about the size of a standard ordinance grenade explosion - slightly larger than big explosive fireworks used on Guy Fawkes night. The detonation was carried out to destroy a suspicious item left on the common partially up the hill near the Streatham Common North side. The Common was cleared of people for the duration of the exercise and a team secured and destroyed the item within minutes. Read more...

Posted on local Newspapers web forums and sent to local journalists.

Statement:
"We, the chairs of the Safer Neighbourhoods Panels in Streatham, send out
our heartfelt sympathies to the family and friends of young James Andre
Smartt-Ford. We are shocked and saddened by the needless and senseless
violence that has taken his life at such a tender age. We deplore these
acts in all their forms, and at any age, and we urge anyone who has any
information about this, no matter how seemingly insignificant, to
contact the police with it. Those who do not wish to speak to the police Read more...

A Streatham man caught with his pockets full of drugs and cash by patrolling Safer Neighbourhood officers in Clapham has been sentenced to four years behind bars.

Drug dealer Alfred Oloya, 30, of Streatham Hill was found carrying ecstasy, cocaine wraps, herbal cannabis, crack cocaine and £880 when officers stopped and searched him and a younger dealer as they drove through Clapham. When they later searched Oloya's home, officers recovered more cocaine, herbal cannabis, a cannabis grinder and further wads of money. Read more...

St Leonards Safer Neighbourhood Team Panel Meeting – Hopton House

Tuesday 13th June 2006

Present:
Trevor Struthers (St Leonards SNT Sergeant)
Gary Lehain (St Leonards SNT PC)
Carol Rose (St Leonards SNT PC)
Jennifer Partridge (St Leonards SNT PSCO)
Winston Rock (Lambeth Council Streatham Wardens Manager)
Neil Thurlow (Lambeth Council Community Safety Officer)
Keith Naish (Lambeth Council Street care)
Barry Adrian (Shrubbery Road resident)
Abdi Ahmed (Somali Youth & Education Development)
Lee Alley (Hambro Road resident)
Alan Davidson (Ferwood Avenue resident) Read more...