Broad Green Police

Afternoon Broad Greeners! Here's our September newsletter for you! Feel free to read and share far and wide
In this edition, we have advertised a couple of free events for all ages at Broad Green Library in Canterbury Road. Especially as the kids have gone back to school, you can help keep their creative juices flowing!
We've also got out usual good news stories to peruse. We had some help this month with some enforcement around the ward 😊
... Going one further this month, we have some useful advice for you if you are the recipient of calls from those silly marketing companies and they keep bothering you
Additionally we've included info of what to do if you keep getting sent junk mail or mail belonging to other people! Irritating, but hopefully for not much longer after you take a look 😊
That's about it for this month, hope you have a fab September, and remember if you want a PDF copy of this newsletter emailed to you, just drop us a line at broadgreen.snt@met.police.uk 😉
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Check out our latest newsletter below 👇
It's been another busy month on Broad Green: this edition features some of the local events we have been attending on the ward, a recent news story about two males found guilty of a number of robberies and information on the Council's latest app 'Don't Mess With Croydon'... definitely worth a download ⬇️
As always, please feel free to like and share 😊 We welcome any suggestions for the next edition. See you out there!

** SUMMER ACTIVITY for YOUNG PEOPLE living in BROAD GREEN - 🛵 Croydon Auto Bike Scheme 🛵**
Do you know a young person, aged 11+, who has an interest in motorbikes and wants to learn a new skill, whilst having fun this summer? Yes, I hear you say!
Check out the opportunity below, running in August, for further details and how to book a place. Feel free to share 😁 Ride on (safely) 🤘

Hi FB Palls!
It's what you've all been waiting for: July's edition of the monthly newsletter for you all to read, like and share 😀
Don't miss out on reading about our upcoming ward panel, due to be held on the 24th July at Holly Saviour Church, St Saviours Road and the various surgeries and street briefings we have lined up for you all.
... We also have some awesome #goodnews stories, including the teams run of finding stolen motor vehicles and taking them off your streets 🚘 🛵
Talking about vehicles, we have some crime prevention advice focussing on theft from motor vehicles. Definitely worth a read, especially with this hot spell of weather and that 'one time' you leave your car window down 🤔
Now that's enough from us. We hope you all enjoy this month's edition 😁 Oh and the football (whichever team you support! ⚽)
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G'day Facebook fans!
Here's our monthly #newsletter for you to peruse, download and #share!
Sorry it's late, but it's still up to its usual high standard for you!
... In this edition, we have our usual #GoodNews - ranging from arrests, to court results, just to give you a small insight into the many things we do!
We've also listed a couple of free crafting events that take place this month at Broad Green Library, located on Canterbury Road in Croydon. These are great for your little ones (or even yourself!)
We've also decided to reintroduce our Street briefings. Since our ward boundaries have changed, we thought we'd give it a try and see what uptake we get with locals and residents in the area
And lastly, we've also re-hashed information for awareness into reporting your concerns via the Met website - www.met.police.uk
All in all, we hope that you've found some of this useful, and feel free to spread it far and wide! If there's something you'd like to see differently, we'll also take feedback!
Happy #June! 😊
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Morning all!
Here we have our monthly #newsletter for May, ready for you to read, share, or scroll past!
This edition has our #goodnews (some bits we've been doing and could fit into the newsletter!)
... We've also shown some local free events at Broad Green Library located on Canterbury Road
We've also got some advice regarding protecting your motor vehicles this summer, as we know that some people are affected by heat (when it eventually arrives! 😁)
And lastly, we have extended a welcome to the new residents who fall under our catchment area from 7th May due to ward boundary changes
Remember to vote May 3rd! And have a great month 😉
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#CommunitiesDefeatTerrorism
It's more important than ever that everyone plays their part in tackling terrorism. Your actions could help police prevent terrorism and save lives.
Like other criminals, terrorists need to plan. If you see or hear something unusual or suspicious trust your instincts and ACT by reporting it in confidence at gov.uk/ACT
... Any piece of information could be important, it is better to be safe and report - #ActionCountersTerrorism
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It's nearing the end of the month! You know what that means? Time for our monthly newsletter for you to read, share and enjoy! 🤗
This is a bumper edition this month, lots of information to give out!
First up we have some local events advertised - one at Broad Green Library, and one at the Peppermint Children's Centre - both are free to attend! 😁
... We also have some information regarding terrorism, and a request for your help - remember #CommunitiesDefeatTerrorism! 👮
We have a link to our Little Book Of Big Scams, and The Little Book Of Cyber Scams - both are free and contain a plethora of information you can arm yourselves with to keep yourself safer! Visit www.met.police.uk to download it!
The main bulk of this newsletter is about the ward boundary changes - we've included which roads leave us and which roads we gain under our wing - we've also included which ward you will fall under if the sad happens and you are no longer ours! 😣
Lastly we have some information from @CroydonCouncil regarding rogue traders
We hope you'll enjoy this newsletter and share it out. Remember if you want to be sent it direct, drop us an email at BroadGreen.SNT@met.police.uk
Peace out y'all!
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It's that time of the month again people, our #free newsletter for you to download and share for #March!
It's bitterly cold outside thanks to the #BeastFromTheEast, and we hope you're safe wherever you are, hopefully you can read this and feel warm knowing we're out there for you 😀
In this month's edition of the #newsletter, we have listed 2 FREE events taking place at Broad Green Library on Canterbury Road, suitable for children AND adults 😁
... We've got our usual #GoodNews with just a few of the things we've been up to this month, including cracking down on wanted offenders!
@OurGreenMile is a community-based project aimed at improving the look and feel of London Road in our area - adding plants, and even litter picking is in the ajenda! Volunteers are required, so if you want to help make our area great, see if you can help 🤗
We've also got some more information on Fraudsters contacting people claiming to be debt collectors! Remember to slow down, #TakeFive, and protect yourself!
That's it for this month, as always, if someone reads this, we're thankful!
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#GoodAfternoon everyone! It's a little early, but here's our newsletter for February for you all to read, share . . . Or scroll past 😂
As it's Valentine's Day on the 14th, and Chinese New Year on the 16th (Year o' the dog!), we've included some events at Broad Green Library on Canterbury Road for you to enjoy 😚
We've also listed some drop in surgery dates for the month! No appointment is necessary, so feel free to drop by, say hi, tell us your local woes (. . . Or buy us a cu...ppa! 😁)
We share a few of the good things we've accomplished over the month, as well as share some information regarding the psychoactive substance 'Spice' which unfortunately has some nasty effects on its users 😔
We also talk about #TakeFive, a national campaign aimed at raises awareness about fraud, with some advice on how to reduce the likelihood of you becoming a victim!
Please feel free share this, it's for you! If there's anything you think should be included in our newsletter then please let us know. Additionally, if you wish to receive a copy of the newsletter for yourself, or a physical copy to have or display to be given out (as long as you live or work on the ward), just drop us an email: broadgreen.snt@met.police.uk
Have a nice February!
Https://www.met.police.uk/your-area/Croyd on/broad-green/
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Just a couple of items we've found whilst being out and about 😣
Parents/carers - if you are concerned about your child's behaviour, have concerns about what they get up to, or even recognise the machete in the photo, you can always contact the police, or seek help through other agencies and charities that are aimed at youths
There are many programmes out there that teach safety, or are aimed at directing youths away from crime and gangs, but we need your help to do so, as we'...re all in this together
If you know anyone else who carries a knife or weapon, but you're afraid to talk to us, you can always pass on information anonymously to such charities as Crimestoppers or Fearless.org
We must all work together to ensure a safe environment for all, and responsibility falls to those who look after youths, or engage with them out in the world. We must educate everybody in the perils of carrying a knife
#ChooseALifeNotAKnife
Visit www.met.police.uk/crime-prevention/stop-k nife-crime/ for more info
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Happy New Year all! We hope you had a great holiday season!
Below we have our monthly #newsletter for #January! Feel free to share and download as you need 😊
In this edition: we have a couple of free events taking place at Broad Green Library in Canterbury Road for young and old alike to attend 😀
... We also speak of some tips with passwords for your online accounts, and ask people to make sure they make a hackers life hard!
We also ask for you guys and girls to help us make our area a nicer place to live, 4 simple requests we make of you and they can make a difference 😁
Enjoy the read, and share far and wide! Much Love!
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Have you got one of the years worst passwords?
Source and image: www.welivesecurity.com
Research has been conducted that reveals many people are using passwords that are too easy to guess, or are common words easily guessed . . . and we hope you're not one of them!
... Over the years, we've all become aware of hacking scandals and fraudsters online who love nothing better than to try and get their way into someone's online accounts and use information stored there for their own evil motives
SplashData have looked over 5million passwords that have been leaked by hackers previously and found commonly used passwords you MUST avoid! We want you to make sure you don't have one of the top (i.e. worst) passwords in use to protect anything you have online!
Here's the top 30!
1 - 123456 2 - password 3 - 12345678 4 - qwerty 5 - 12345 6 - 123456789 7 - letmein 8 - 1234567 9 - football 10 - iloveyou 11 - admin 12 - welcome 13 - monkey 14 - login 15 - abc123 16 - starwars 17 - 123123 18 - dragon 19 - passw0rd 20 - master 21 - hello 22 - freedom 23 - whatever 24 - qazwsx 25 - trustno1 26 - 654321 27 - jordan23 28 - Harley 29 - password1 30 - 1234
There are obviously more to that list, but as you can see there are probably some passwords that you use contained in that list, or someone you know (like a family member) that uses them - These are all easily guessable, and they're already going to be contained in a programme used by hackers to attempt to access online accounts, in addition to more common words/sequences, and dictionary words
If you feel that you, or another, fit into this category of having an easy password, we urge you to do what you can to change it and make it unique - you could probably even consider finding a password manager for your computer that stores the passwords for you, and generates very difficult to crack codes for you!
Spread the word, and we hope you find it useful! Remember, you can report fraud online at www.actionfraud.police.uk
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#BeAHero - remember to check ID when people come calling!

#BeAHero - simple steps you can take to secure your home and protect against burglary this #Christmas!

The Met Police is working hard to tackle burglary and help Londoners keep themselves and their property safe - #BeSafe #3StepPtotect
We have a few short videos embedded in this post you may find useful (or even enjoy) as help for everyone 😉
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