News on Lambeth Safer Streets

Following reports on this survey site and months of anti-social activities, Metropolitan Police colleagues obtained a dispersal order for Plato Road to assist with tackling the ongoing issues of ASB and VAWG concerns caused by groups loitering on the street corner.

Public Protection had coordinated an operation with partners to tackle the ongoing ASB and VAWG related issues in the area as well as allowing partners to undertake their taskings. Public Protection Community Liaison Officers attended the location at approximately 17:30hrs to support this operation. Upon arrival, Public Protection met with the lead police officer who was already on site with her officers strategically placed to assist all partners, we suggested to the lead officer that Public Protection were going to conduct door-to-door reassurance visits with the residents closest to the operation so that we could advise them of what we were doing and understand how these activities had affected their daily lives.

After speaking with the first residents, we were joined by Cllr. David Bridson and engaged with several other residents along the street, updating them and receiving feedback on how the anti-social behaviour affects them on a regular basis. Residents expressed their gratitude and were happy to have a face-to-face conversation with the Councillor, Police and Public Protection.

Following on from engaging with the residents, we went on to speak to local businesses who were grateful for our interactions and outlined that they would like us to continue with these types of operations. We were later joined by our lead member Cllr. Hashi to continue with our reassurance patrols.

Overall, it was a successful operation and proved to be a great deterrent as none of the regular patrons assembled at the location on the day giving the residents and public some respite from the continuous ASB and VAWG related issues.