Brixton residents have long called for better communication and partnership with police. Now Met Engage is live across Brixton. It aims to improve communication and partnership between residents and local police teams.
What is Met Engage?
This free platform delivers tailored email alerts with crime prevention advice, updates on local policing activities, ongoing investigations, and successful operations directly to residents’ inboxes. It’s not just about police informing the public, but creating opportunities for residents to share concerns, highlight local issues, and actively shape policing priorities in their neighbourhoods.
The platform connects you directly with your local Safer Neighbourhood Team through community events, “Cuppa with a Copper” sessions, Ward Panel meetings, and regular drop-in sessions. It strengthens partnerships between police, local councils, schools, youth services, and residents’ associations to tackle issues collaboratively from multiple angles.
What Met Engage Means for Brixton
Met Engage is operational across Brixton in Brixton North, Brixton Rush Common, Brixton Acre Lane, and Brixton Windrush. Local teams are using resident feedback to address community-identified priorities.
These include:
- Drug Activity – Across all our neighbourhoods, teams are targeting drug dealing through high visibility and undercover patrols in key areas including Windrush Square and surrounding residential streets. Officers are identifying and building cases against drug dealers. Police are improving use of Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and working with other agencies to provide support to users.
- Violence Against Women and Girls – Brixton Windrush teams are conducting deeper engagement with local women and girls and community in Walk and Talk sessions. Officers are running covert and high visibility patrols at peak hours with officers specially trained in detecting body language of potential offenders within the night-time economy.
- ASB, Street Drinking and Aggressive Begging – In all our neighbourhoods, teams are using temporary CCTV, targeted patrols, and Community Protection Orders (CPOs) to address ASB in the worst-hit areas. Monthly multi-agency Days of Action take a zero tolerance approach in hotspots, with officers issuing warnings and notices, and pushing for arrest where proportionate. Police are also investigating and seizing dangerous dogs.
- Shoplifting and Handling Stolen Goods – Around the town centre, teams are targeting prolific shoplifters through increased patrols with the BID and Safer Business Networks. Officers are focusing on the most persistent offenders and working closely with affected businesses.
- Tackling Serious Violence and Knife Crime – Officers are running increased patrols, pursuing prosecutions, working with young people on prevention, and promoting weapon amnesty days.
Your Local Connection
The platform shares successful operations against shop theft, warrant executions, and investigations into incidents. Each neighbourhood has dedicated officers you can contact directly through the platform.
Met Engage represents a move towards more accountable, responsive policing with resident-shaped priorities, regular community contact, and operational transparency.
To see what’s going on in your neighbourhood and to contact your local team, sign up at www.metengage.co.uk. Remember – Met Engage is for community engagement and non-urgent matters. Always call 999 for emergencies.
