Police presence in South Lewisham is the worst in London according to residents.

Data drawn from the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime Comparator found that just 31 per cent of residents felt police were providing a visible presence in South Lewisham, and only 33 per cent in Central Lewisham.

London Assembly Member for Greenwich and Lewisham, has called on Boris Johnson to put more police officers back into the borough after the decision to cut back neighbourhood policing teams from six uniformed officers to only two.

Mr Duvall said: "With 107 uniformed officers on Lewisham's streets since the Government come to power it's no surprise that many local people do not feel that there is a visible police presence in Lewisham.

"The cuts to police numbers and the Mayor's decision to dismantle neighbourhood policing teams have clearly been noticed by people in Lewisham and indeed across the Capital.

"It's increasingly clear that we need to see more officers back on the beat in our local neighbourhoods."

A spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime, said: "The Mayor's Office published these figures for the first time precisely because we want to see confidence in the Met Police rise and part of that mission is making the police more visible.

"For many years our surveys have told us that Londoners want to see their local officers more and that is why the Mayor has kept police numbers high."

The spokeswoman also said that the Metropolitan Police had worked hard to redeploy 2,600 officers into neighbourhood teams including 109 officers in Lewisham.

She added: "Confidence in the police is now rising but there is still some way to go.

"However, research shows that confidence is about more than just visibility and the foundations of greater confidence is lower crime, and that is what the Met is delivering with victim-based crime down in Lewisham by 24% since 2012."