Everyone wants to enjoy and make the most of the festive period, so this season the Road Safety teams from Kingston Council have joined forces with the Police, Street Pastors and the local bars and nightclubs of PubWatch to launch a hard-hitting campaign targeting drink drivers. The blitz on drink driving will see additional Police […]

Kingston Council is warning local residents to beware of computer virus phone scams. The scam involves people being phoned by someone claiming to work for a large and well-known computer firm, who advises them that their computer may have a virus.  The caller then directs the resident to a part of the computer’s operating system […]

With the Olympics steadily approaching the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has developed a FREE messaging system. “Neighbourhood Link” is the name of the messaging service that enables you to regularly receive information from the MPS. The information released will be in relation to crime and safety in the areas you work and/or live, or wherever […]

Every 3 months the St Mark’s Safer Neighbourhood Police Panel meet to discuss policing issues and priorities in the ward.  The panel is a group of residents of St Mark’s Ward, often representing certain community groups but not always.  If you are interested in joining please contact Liz, Mary or Yogan and we will pass […]

Surbiton Police are reporting a scam. A resident in Surbiton recieved a phone call from someone suggesting there was a problem with their computer. They were suspicious and while on the phone checked if this was a known scam. Seems it is – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/mar/01/microsoft-virus-scam-continues The call came from someone purporting to be from Invincible PC […]

Boris Johnson, Conservative Mayor for London, wants to cut back our local police teams.  His plan is to reduce our safer neighbourhood teams across the borough.  These are front line police services, we want him to reduce the Met’s bureaucracy to make the savings. John Ayles, the Liberal Democrat candidate in the by-election in Surbiton […]

St Mark’s Safer Neighbourhood Police Team have given more dates for street briefing. We know that sometimes residents have concerns but don’t necessarily want to go to the local police with them, as they are busy.  These street briefings give the ideal time to just have a chat with the local St Mark’s ward police […]

Kingston Council’s Trading Standards team are supporting an Office of Fair Trading campaign to clamp down on rogue traders this summer. Figures recently released by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) show that home improvements continue to top the list of complaints about doorstep rogue traders, in particular uninvited traders offering roofing, tarmacing, insulation and […]

The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) is consulting on London’s policing priorities. They are interested in your opinion. Please take part in a short questionnaire to tell them your views. To complete a questionnaire visit www.mpa.gov.uk/publications/policingplans/haveyoursay or call 020 7202 0063, leave your name and address and they will send you a paper copy. If you require […]

The new 101 number for contacting the police was launched on 11th July as part of a national programme to improve access.   The new number will give the public one easy way to get in touch with the police for calls that do not require an urgent response. Having just two phone numbers –  101 […]