During the last month we have held two major days of visible
coordinated activity to cut crime and disrupt those who cause harm to our
communities. Borough officers have been joined by specialist colleagues to carry
out arrests, search warrants, licensing enforcement, ANPR operations, high
visibility patrols and a range of other activity in the widest ranging operations
of the year to date.
Officers from every part of the Metropolitan Police have been
mobilised during these operations - Dog Support Unit; Mounted Branch;
Territorial Support Group; Firearms Command; Trident and Gang Crime Command;
Air Support Unit; Royal Parks Command; Traffic Unit; Special Constabulary;
Police Cadets; Safer Transport Command - and have been out and about on the
streets tackling the crimes that affect your neighbourhood.
These operations – Operation Big Wing and Operation Hawk - are
about showing residents that we have listened to their concerns and we are
committed to taking robust preventative and disruptive action to stop this criminal
activity and make our communities safer. It’s also about warning those intent
on breaking the law and engaging in criminal activity that we will be doing
everything we can to stop them, and wherever possible we will be putting them
before the courts.
We hope this activity will be one way of showing some of what we do
every day to make Bromley safer for our communities. These operations both
reinforce what we do on a daily basis in targeting criminals head on and provide
further public reassurance to residents across the borough through visible,
high-impact policing.
30 people were arrested across Bromley in Operation Big Wing at the
end of February, with 9 uninsured vehicles also being removed from the boroughs
roads. The arrests were for theft, motor vehicle crime, robbery, domestic
violence, assault, harassment, drugs, handling stolen goods, absconding from
prison, immigration offences, weapon offences, criminal damage, driving whilst disqualified and breach of ASBO. The operation was so successful that Bromley's Custody Suite was
full at one stage in the day. Drugs, stolen goods and a stolen motor vehicle have been recovered
during the raids and officers arrested a man on suspicion of absconding from
prison after he was found hiding in a loft at a house in Beckenham.
Officers also raided a cannabis factory and seized 80 plants. Op
Hawk nets 26 arrests across borough
A major Police offensive against street level drug dealing and
cannabis farms led to the arrest of 26 people across Bromley on 27th March. Sixteen
raids took place throughout the day as hundreds of Safer Neighbourhoods
officers, supported by specialist colleagues, set to work to execute drugs
warrants in direct response to community intelligence. Cannabis factories were
found at addresses in Augustine Road in St Pauls Cray (350 cannabis plants
& £5,000 cash), Sherbourne Road in St Mary Cray (100 cannabis plants),
Blythe Hill in Orpington (70 cannabis plants), Rushdene Walk in Biggin Hill (25
cannabis plants and a quantity of Class A drugs).
A further cannabis factory was found at an address in Tudor Court
in Dartford, linked to the Augustine Road address raided earlier in the day
(110 cannabis plants) Drugs were also recovered at addresses in Cattistock Road
in Mottingham and at Blandford Road in Clock House. A stun gun was recovered
from an address in Brewery Road in Bromley Common. The street value of the
drugs recovered totalled nearly £560,000.
Police also took enforcement action against two brothels operating
on the borough, in partnership with the UK Border Agency. 6 Uninsured vehicles
were removed from the borough's streets during the operation.
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