The Police have issued a statement on the double stabbing that occurred on Tuesday in West Norwood:

Officers investigating the double murder of two men at an address in West Norwood have arrested a man. The 29-year-old man was arrested at an address in south London yesterday evening (21 October) and remains in custody at a south London police station.

The bodies of two men, believed to be aged approximately 60, were found at the flat. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. This is being treated as a double murder inquiry. Read more...

The officers of the St Leonards Safer Neighbourhoods Panel of Streatham cordially invite you to the panel meeting to be held at St Leonards Church on the Streatham High Road. The time will be 7PM until 9PM on the 1st of April. The agenda for the meeting is the following:

1. Welcome and Apologies

2. Minutes of the meeting held on 11.02.09 and matters arising

3. Officers' reports

4. Police Update

5. Dangerous trees: 16 - 34 Tooting Bec Gardens

6. Discussion about Priorities

7. Any other business

8. Date of next meeting: 10 June 2009

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...

In continuation of the previous post we would like to welcome our new Safer Neighbourhoods Sergeant Martin Wild to the team! We look forward to working with him and seeing lots of him around St Leonards ward. He should know his way around as he was the Streatham homebeat officer here in the 1990's for quite a while. Indeed, his first foray across Streatham Green was apparently met with surprise by individuals known then to Sgt Wild (and to the police!) with something of an exclamation (by the individual, not the Sgt) of "you can run but you can't hide" or similar! Read more...

On the same day as the rest of the SNT and the Streatham Task Force were raiding premises on the Streatham High Road, PCSO Mustafa Abdulhusein was flagged down by a distraught mother near the police station. She had been waiting at a Streatham bus stop for her two children to return but they didn't show up at the arranged time. Read more...

The St Leonards Safer Neighbourhoods Ward has again set the standard by going live with what is believed to be the first Safer Neighbourhoods Team podcasts in the country! I was able to record Streatham police Superintendent Jonathan Tottman delivering two separate podcasts this afternoon. Both of these, and all future podcasts, can be downloaded from the podcast page where we will be uploading new podcasts on a weekly basis. Read more...