I left home for about fifteen minutes to get a bottle of bleach and a packet of screws (I really know how to celebrate Boxing Day) and when I was walking back up the High Road, I saw that the flats where I live – Streatham Court – had been cordoned off by police.
At the back of Streatham Court there is another block called Manor Court, which was the focus of a big police operation over several hours. Walking up Leigham Avenue, I could see police vans in numbers, officers with guns, riot shields and dogs.
Having a word with one of the officers across the tapes, it seems that a man with a knife was in the process of being apprehended after a number of alarming incidents in Streatham earlier in the day.
Eventually the police moved in and captured the man in his flat. He was taken away. I have to say, I was impressed not only by the scale of the operation, but also the efficiency with which it was managed. Though I and a number of other residents had to remain outside the cordon, we were allowed back to our homes as soon as it was safe.
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About Me
- Councillor Mark Bennett
- I was re-elected as a Lambeth Labour councillor in May 2006, following a by-election win in October 2005. I'm 39 and represent Streatham South ward, together with two Labour colleagues. Labour regained control of Lambeth in May, after four years in opposition to a Lib Dem Tory alliance. After two years as Cabinet Member for Safer Communities in the Labour administration, I spent a year as Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure and Sport. I'm now Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities. I've lived in Streatham for ten years and I'm proud of my family's roots in London and the South East. I'm also a governor of Dunraven School in Streatham. I joined the Labour Party in the early 1990s, when John Smith was leader, and I was a student in Stoke on Trent.
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