The changes listed below will come into effect by 1 November 2025. Policing responsibility for Richmond Park will be taken over by the Richmond Borough Safer Neighbourhoods Teams.

There are three wards with such teams bordering the Park. The South Richmond and Ham, Petersham  and Richmond Riverside Teams will relocate their officers from Twickenham police station to the current office at Holly Lodge. This will mean that 10 officers will be based there and regularly seen travelling through the Park to and from their wards.

The East Sheen Team will remain at their current base opposite the East Sheen library. All three Teams will share responsibility for attending to Park criminal incidents as reported on 999, 101 or online. The split of geographic responsibility in the Park has still to be decided.

Royal Parks Regulation infringements, as reported on 999 etc, will be triaged and attended to as necessary.

The oversight of police performance, as currently handled by ward Police Liaison Groups, has yet to be addressed. The next East Sheen Police Liaison Group meeting is on 11 December 2025.