London to close down police stations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnp3g6kdxo
Posted by Xtergo
London to close down police stations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnp3g6kdxo
Posted by Xtergo
26 Comments
> The force plans to reduce the number of front counters where the public can speak to officers from 37 to 20, and cut the number of them open 24 hours a day to 8.
Across the whole of London. Insane.
The article makes for grim reading, it’s something that is unfortunately been echoed up and down the country.
They think they’re saving money but ultimately, then ultimately when it’s the experienced coppers leaving the service and the new ones are overworked, that’s how critical errors get made. If the crime rates continues to increase, it’s going to cost more than they are saving!
Oh dear what a shame. That’s been going on for years in the rest of the country. Why is anything only a problem when it happens in London?
Criminologists and economists are going to have a field day with this kind of variation even if it likely isn’t exogenous.
This will put the public at greater risk. Front counters have often been a first refuge for domestic abuse victims when they aren’t able to call or use the Internet to report their abusers. It was a bit of a safe haven of sorts.
if a goverment cant enforce its own laws, it is a failed state,
After tfl counters, now it’s police counters. What’s next?
I am the last person to defend London police, but isn’t there both emergency and non-emergency number to dial if one needs? You can also reach out to officers on the street. Reporting a crime in person on a police station seems like a pretty niche need and if it saves money/redirects it to the actual police presence on the streets, it doesn’t sound like a bad idea.
If saving money is the aim, then just stop doing police work.
Great news! London must be really low on crime for the met to be taking these actions.
As the crime in London is reducing it makes sense. Hold on
This whole problem started when they slashed the police budget as part of “austerity”
They may as well as they’re fucking useless anyway
Shrinkflation – pay more council tax; get a reduced service.
They’ve really just gone ‘nah, fuck barking/dagenham, let em sort themselves.’
Literally, barely any police exist here now, you dont report anything because why bother, no one turns up.
More that it’s home but man, moving away is far more a reality than it has ever been.
Why deal with crimes in real time when you can look at some cameras and deal with it later on.
This country is going down a sketchy path.
Only £7m per year savings for this? How is this worth crippling public-facing police work in London in any capacity? Who is doing the cost-benefit analysis on this…
Who would actually go to a physical police station to report a crime? I can see that it’s kind of an old fashioned idea
They don’t need the front desks. The real crime is online hate.
Lawless Britain …honestly it feels like power high up are deliberately sabotaging us and driving our once great country into a lawless 3rd world country
For 14 years people were happy to vote for a party that slashed frontline public service funding. This is where we end up.
Yeah why bother even having police in London? Just let it be more of a free for all for criminals and thieves.
More frontline cuts. How about the back room bureaucratic empires – any cuts there?
It seems crazy to me that pretty much all police forces are being forced to sell and close real estate, yet the population is bigger than ever. All towns used to have small police stations and now they are gone. The conservatives decimated the policing in the UK.
London about to face the Los Angeles experience~
>City of Los Angeles population: 3.8 million
>Los Angeles Police population: 8995
But put a line on the floor. That’ll make it better.