The St Leonards Safer Neighbourhoods Panel team wish to welcome you to our first panel newsletter! We've been talking about this for ages so finally Lee put finger to keyboard and set it all up. Should you wish to be apprised of upcoming meetings, posted meeting minutes, local e-mail alerts and other Safer Neighbourhoods updates you can select each specific type of update you want by logging into the website and clicking on "Subscriptions" in your user area (call "My Account" in the menu). 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...

I wish to take this opportunity to wish all the best to Sgt Trevor Struthers and to PC Gary LeHaine both of whom have been promoted, either in action or in spirit to other things. Sgt Struthers is most likely Inspector Struthers now and will be working for the Internal Investigations team which has an official name that escapes me at the moment. PC Gary LeHaine has been promoted in a manner of speaking to a job that will entail riding motorcycles and being paid to do so. Apparently this is a dream job for certain coppers of whom Gary is one! 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 Team has had some recent results we want to publish widely. Although much of the ethos of the team is to create links with the community for good community relations and communications, actual on-the-ground results are another aspect and our team hasn't been slacking. Read more...