• Balham Pubwatch team on look out for criminals

  By aloquifique at 17:05 on 16/12/11

  

  Pubs in Balham are helping to keep crime out of the town centre by sharing images of known offenders. A new information sharing scheme has been set up by the Met Police Balham Safer Neighbourhood Team and Wandsworth Council.    Photos of known troublemakers are now being circulated among members of the Balham Pubwatch - a group of 17 licensed premises which are working together to tackle antisocial behaviour in...

• Ex Ernest Bevin Student now new Borough Commander!

  By aloquifique at 19:39 on 14/12/11

  

  Council leader Ravi Govindia has welcomed the appointment of a Balham and Tooting-bred former pupil of Ernest Bevin College as the borough's new top cop. Chief Supt David Chinchen has been named as Wandsworth's new borough commander. He replaces Chief Supt David Musker who has become the borough commander in Croydon. Chief Supt Chinchen will be taking charge of the police division where he first served as a young constable in 1981....

• Thieves and Pick Pockets operating in Balham. Be Warned

  By aloquifique at 17:19 on 02/12/11

  

  Around 2:30pm today, (2/12) a man wearing a hoodie ran off with the tips jar from the coffee stall outside Bertie and Boo.  Today they tweeted their anger and added "for some reason we expect more of Balham!" But don't expect more from Balham.  Also tweeting today, Petals of Balham, the new Hildreth Street flower shop tweeted a warning to mothers with children saying "A lot of bag snatches this week by white...

• Sadiq Khan warns of attempted abductions

  By aloquifique at 18:36 on 20/11/11

  

  In a letter posted by Sadiq Khan MP on a furzedown website, the text of which is below, he warns of 2 recent attempted abductions at the top of Streatham Common.   "I've received information regarding two incidents in Streatham (just on the otherside of the Common) that may be of concern to local residents. In both cases a man in a white van has made attempts to approach young girls (11-12) as they walked along the...

• Woman punched and spat at between Balham and Streatham Station

  By aloquifique at 20:44 on 15/11/11

  

  British Transport  Police (BTP) officers are appealing for witnesses after a woman passenger was punched and spat at onboard a train travelling between Balham and Streatham stations. Investigating Officer PC Neil Allison said the incident took place onboard a Victoria to Sutton service, at 9.45pm on Wednesday, 5 October: "The victim, a 35-year-old woman from Lambeth, was travelling in the third or fourth carriage, when she...

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