I have found the Police pretty good in Peckham. They followed up on a malicious call my daughter received recently and put the oik into touch. This was related to a punch she had received from another lad, which was taken very seriously; she gave video evidence and we are waiting for this to come to trial. I've only reported two serious incidents that I witnessed and the police responded immediately. Also, my far from perfect but lovely daughter has been on the other side of the police's attention (!) and they dealt with it very effectively, with no complaints from me. I think they do a pretty thankless, sometimes dangerous job fairly well.