Cuppa with a Copper Tuesday 11th November 11- 12 noon. Dulwich Hill SNT

[Pugwash]

When and Where?
Tue 11 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 CHRIST CHURCH, 263 Barry Road London SE22 0JT Once again the Dulwich Hill SNT will be holding an informal meeting in the church/café area          at Christ Church. Are you a resident/business owner residing or working in the Dulwich Hill electoral ward and have concerns re anti social behaviour/crime or just want to meet your local police team. - please come along.

[Pugwash]

Just a reminder that Dulwich Hill SNT will be holding their Cuppa with a Copper session on 11th November 11- 12 in the cafe area at Christ Church Barry Road.

[beansprout]

Be interesting to hear how many people attended

[NewWave]

I cant get there sadly however I do hope that someone brings up the recent unprovoked violet attacks on women in the area

[Pugwash]

Last time we had Cuppa with a Copper - we had 10 people attend.

The attack mentioned in previous entry - I assume is the one around Goose Green ?

[beansprout]

May I ask as I am interested to know.. what was the age range? Know, that when I lived there, tried early evening & that was worse as people who might have been interested in attending had kids to deal with… supper, after school activities, etc.. and older folk didn’t want to go out.

Would it not be better to do it over a weekend? Say Sat as opposed to Sun when some go to church and of course clashes with activities  for kids whichever day one chooses. I get one has to do it when bobbies are available…

Given the incidents around ED, would have thought this would be a better approach or perhaps, link it in with  the guy from council was very proactive..

Just strikes me, that people who might wish or want to attend, would not be available.. work being one..

 

 

 

 

[NewWave]

3 hours ago, Pugwash said:

Last time we had Cuppa with a Copper - we had 10 people attend.

The attack mentioned in previous entry - I assume is the one around Goose Green ?

Yes.. its this thread 

 

[Pugwash]

If you look at all the Cuppa with Copper in ED they are all during the day - the Dulwich Village SNT hold theirs at various venues. 

If a resident has concerns and cannot get to meet the team, they can arrange a home visit. 

I know a couple of the officers have called upon people at their home.

Many of the residents are now linked to Met Engage and receive regular updates from the police.

What council guy are you talking about?   

There were also Mums/childminders with young children there who also briefly spoke with a couple of the officers,

 

Edited November 10 by Pugwash
additional info

[beansprout]

Well I for one, wish I had know when I have a very unnerving incident happen to me over a weekend had the number of local officer. Called and reported incident even did it on line - zero response. 

Could you possibly give our e mail address or numbers and names of our local bobbies please, or ask their permission for those of us who can’t attend in the middle of the week on a working day. 

[march46]

I recommend signing to their new platform ‘Met Engage’ - you can contact local officers through it (but it’s not for reporting crime via the usual 999 or 101). 
 

Met Engage

[Pugwash]

Are you back to living in ED or still in Devon but coming back to London for medical treatment?

You can google the Met Police and get the SNT details of whatever ward applies.  

What I gather from our Cuppa with a Copper session yesterday, they have done welfare checks at the resident's address.  The email you sent - was it to a general address  as I understand that this 'central information base' then gets filtered down to individual SNT teams,

[beansprout]

So how many showed up  for Cuppa with a Copper…..any with families or all older folk

[Pugwash]

 A couple of mums turned up - did not stay long as Police were running late due to transport issues. We had 3 ladies who had not attended before, the majority were retired folk but we had one lady in her 30s who did hybrid working so was able to get out during the day.  - 12 of us.

[beansprout]

Well guess it is better than a couple or none…and nice to see the cross section of age groups.

Pity  though, in day time but know you tried a few years ago at nighttime around kids supper time and from memory only about 2/3. Just a pity like I have said that with crime rate clearly rising in ED more of the community can’t attend. Having said that, now we are approaching winter time, don’t think it would matter when as few would come out.

Would be nice though to say change it to perhaps a weekend later pm say 4/5 , or in deed a weeknight when people are home from work in say Spring.. Maybe you should ask people in ED for their views or indeed how many might come if timings were changed.. up to you as you are the organiser of this I believe.

And of course it depends on local bobbies schedule.