After a week of hobbling round following surgery to my knee last week, I was glad to return on Monday and see the fantastic effort that my officers and staff are making to keep you all safe.

As some of you will know the Metropolitan Police Service's report into the summer disorder, "Four Days in August", was released this Wednesday.

It is an assessment of police actions, key findings and work already undertaken to ensure there is no repeat of the disorder.

I am really pleased to let you know that the reports release did not give rise to any increase in community tension anywhere across London but obviously we need to keep monitoring this.

On a local level, it would appear that we have a series of residential burglaries in Merton over the last week or so with homes searched specifically for high value items of jewellery.

There seems to be a particular link to Asian jewellery and I suspect that this is in part being caused by the increase in gold prices. I have asked my officers to be extra vigilant in the areas affected and make sure that we give clear and informed crime prevent advice to victims and potential victims.

Please could all help me with this and pass on these simple but effective crime prevent tips:

  • If you must keep valuable jewellery at home, keep it in a locked safe that cannot be easily removed.
  • Don’t display gold jewellery in public unnecessarily.
  • Ensure your doors and windows are closed and locked when you leave and remove keys from locks - especially front door keys.
  • Set your burglar alarm when you go out.
  • If you do have valuable items of jewellery.

Register them on www.immobilise.com. It is a free to use service where you can register photographs and details of valuables.

It will help us reunite items if they are ever stolen and later recovered - Photographing jewellery is also helpful as it will enable us to circulate it to local pawn brokers/ jewellers.

I was very honoured to be invited to the Merton Partnership Awards this week and saw the amazing things that people have done to make Merton such a wonderful place.

As you know I am setting up a scheme where police officers and staff volunteer their time to run fitness based activities with local youths and I will give you more details as the final arrangements are made.

I am also setting up a media and communications unit at the police station and so we are on the hunt for someone within the community with an interest in photography who would like to volunteer as our camera person.

It may suit somebody who is retired but it may also suit a student of photography who is interested in building a rather unique portfolio!

Please, if you know of anyone. Please ask them to contact my office and speak with Sergeant Ruth Jones who is setting up this unit for me.

Finally I have attached two maps for your interest - they show our borough and where burglaries and robberies happened in February - please let me know if this is useful for you and if you would like me to continue to provide this to you.

I would also like to let you know about specific crime trends, particular offences of note or any high risk offenders that we need to identify - again please let me know your thoughts.

Detective Chief Superintendent Darren Williams is the borough commander for Merton Police. He joined in January 2012 and wants Wimbledon Guardian readers to contact him with ideas on how to improving policing in our borough.

To put forward a suggestion or a question, email: newsdesk@wimbledonguardian.co.uk and put "Merton police" in the subject line.

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