This post will contain updated crime prevention advice. Below you can read how to keep your kids safe online, prevent theft from your motor vehicles as well as burglary.
The Southfields Grid Residents’ Association would recommend you sign up to ‘Met Engage’ – a new platform through which we can get to know our local officers, help shape how they police our local area, and have direct access to key information and advice.
This platform is not just for the Met Police to tell us what they’re doing in our area; it’s an opportunity for us to tell them what’s concerning us most so they can take action on the things that truly matter. By signing up, Met Engage will send emails directly into your inbox. It easy to use and helpfully and informative. To sign up, please press this link.
Please note ‘Met Engage’ is not a crime-reporting platform. If you wish to report a crime you can call 101 or make a report via the crime section of the Met website. If it is an emergency, dial 999.
The crime prevention advice below is from the Met Police via ‘Met Engage’
Keeping kids safe online this summer
- To access the advice, please press here.
Theft from motor vehicles
- Always lock your vehicle and double check
- Close windows and sun-roof to prevent ‘fishing’
- Secure number plates with tamper-resistant screws
- Fit locking, anti-tamper wheel nuts to secure alloy wheels
- Take your valuable(s) with you or hide it/them
- Hide electrical items and leave no clues
- If tools are in a van, either remove them or have them security marked
- Park in a well-lit and busier area
- Take your documents with you
- Choose your car park wisely – use Park Mark
Burglary
- Double lock your door every time you leave the house
- If you can, move garden furniture or bins away from windows so that thieves cannot use them to gain access.
- Use laminated glass or security film on ground floor and accessible windows.
- Use a sash stop if you have sash windows to prevent people opening them enough to climb through.
- If your windows open outwards, use a key operated lock – check these are locked before leaving the house.
- Make sure all valuables are out of sight.
- Keep handbags and keys away from letterboxes or cat flaps.
- In the evening shut the curtains and leave lights on.
- Set your burglar alarm
- Lock your shed or garage
- Mark, register or record your valuables.
