Cllr Ruth Dombey, Leader of Sutton Council; Cllr Tim Crowley, Leader of the Opposition at Sutton Council; Niall Bolger, Chief Executive of Sutton Council; and Acting Sutton Borough Police Commander Mark Lawrence said in a joint statement: “We are all shocked and appalled at these awful scenes in our city on Saturday 3 June. The […]
On Wednesday 22 March four people died in a terrorist attack on the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. Cllr Ruth Dombey, Leader of Sutton Council; Cllr Tim Crowley, Leader of the Opposition at Sutton Council; Niall Bolger, Chief Executive of Sutton Council, and Sutton Borough Police Commander Dave Stringer said in a joint statement: “We are […]
Statement from Sutton’s Detective Superintendent Fran Smith, Deputy Borough Commander: “Over the last few days we have seen a number of incidents involving violence in our Borough including two serious assaults in the Town Centre. Such incidents are unusual in Sutton. They are all separate incidents and for them to happen in a short period […]
Off-duty police officers took part in a nail-biting final to a charity soccer tournament during the hottest day of the year to raise money to help people with dementia. The finalists from Sutton’s 999 B Relief response team and community officers from Sutton South and Worcester Park Safer Neighbourhoods Teams were playing at Goals, London […]
Police are advising the small number of drivers who may be tempted to be abusive or violent towards Sutton Council’s parking enforcement officers that action will be taken against them if they commit such offences. Police action could result in an on-the-spot fine of £100 for disorder, a police caution or a charge and an […]
Sutton Council and the police are working together to identify the people responsible for one of the largest and most dangerous cases of flytipping ever seen in the south London borough. At 4am today (Friday 29 May), flytippers discarded a lorry-load of brick debris along an 80- to 100m-stretch of Queenswood Avenue in Wallington, waking […]
A married couple, both aged 90, were tricked out of £650 savings by a doorstep caller who said that was the price for removing 26 bags of garden rubbish and a repair to their side guttering, which it turned out didn’t need repairing. The couple received a call at their front door of their home […]
A 40-year-old man has been convicted and sentenced for damaging a number of ash and sycamore trees next to his property. Xhavit Krasniqi, of Coleridge Avenue, Sutton, had arranged for unqualified workers to carry out lopping and topping of six trees from the neighbouring Sutton Council-owned Westmead Allotments. Officers from the Sutton Police Safer Parks Team […]