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Although I have not entered my local police station for many years, it is nice to know it is there,(which it may not be for much longer). I think the fire coverage is probably still adequate, but would not want to see anymore closures than the ones proposed now.
I get a bit more concerned about hospital A&E closures.
John | 13.01.13 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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It's been going on in The Counties for years...
Blue Witch | Homepage | 13.01.13 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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The local police closure (Crosspoint House) isn't much of a loss. Set on the poorly signed ground floor of a rather forbidding looking miniature office block, I think the majority of locals aren't even aware that there's a police station in there. The main station in Sutton is gigantic and probably capable of policing the entire borough all on its own.
Chz | 13.01.13 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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A number of Police stations in Havering have already closed over the last few years, Upminster, Rainham. Hornchurch is just the latest on the cuts list.
Old Railway Man | 13.01.13 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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As for the police stations that remain, I'm extremely worried about things being outsourced to private companies. G4S are monumentally incompetent at everything, and yet they seem to be getting more and more contracts for everything. It's very scary.
Karen | 13.01.13 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Brentford Police station has been part-time for some years so won't really be missed. The worrying one is Feltham, quite a high crime area, has a youth offenders detention centre in it plus a large magistrates court where arguments often get taken outside. The pol,ice are going to have to spens a lot of time there, unless of course Policing continues to go down the road of just catching drivers comitting monir road offences.
Dave | Homepage | 13.01.13 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Our local police station has already been turned into a primary school to cope with the growing numbers of children in the area. Let's hope they teach them good behaviour at school, then.
allotmentqueen | Homepage | 13.01.13 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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Dave.- The Feltham police station has been part time, and only open during the day for some time now. I think it ought to stay open. The courthouse is almost opposite not far up the road, and there are often people congregating outside there during court cases. As you state there is also a large Young Offenders detention centre (prison)in Feltham. There is quite a lot of crime in the area. The nearest Metropolitan Police stations if Feltham police station closed would I think be Hounslow or Twickenham.(not sure if Heathrow also has a metropolitan station).
Feltham Police station appears to be a fairly new purpose built building. The population of Feltham has also increased a lot, thanks to many new housing and flat developments.
There are of course lots of cameras in the town and around the station.
John | 13.01.13 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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I know you've just copied the list of police stns from the official document but it is worth noting that Walthamstow Police Stn is already shut. It is therefore disingenuous of MOPAC to include it as a future closure in their "consultation". There was a minor fire at the police stn and the Met shut the doors and decided not to repair the damage. No consultation or discussion about that. It now has a "redevelopment opportunity" sign outside. It is a scandalous slight of hand and now the "neighbourhood" office in the High St is slated for closure plus virtual elimination of the ward teams. Are we supposed to police the streets ourselves?
I always thought the Conservatives supported the Police and emergency services. Seems this lot of intent on causing as much disruption, chaos and long term damage to essential services as possible. This policy will come back and bite them on their "posterior". It only takes one major emergency or riots and the weaknesses will be revealed.
PC | 13.01.13 - 11:02 a.m. | #
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So Barking and Dagenham, having lost its hospitals, now loses both its police stations?
Just as well it doesn't have a rapidly growing population or anything...
Dominic H | 13.01.13 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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As John says, it is nice and reassuring to know that the police stations are there. I am not at all happy with the closing down and privatisation of all these public services, it really is for the worse.
Greenwich Skater | 13.01.13 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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Retailers have long realised that life size photographed images of real people have the effect of reducing pilfering. Police Stations have the same effect, in my view. In the past I have had to use local police stations in order to assist others (e.g. a person lost from residential care with mental health difficulties.) Am I to be reduced to walking on the other side of the street next time I spot someone in difficulties?
B | 13.01.13 - 1:59 p.m. | #
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I wonder where the Police Horses will go if they close Bow Road? There are stables around the back and they exercise / train in Vicky Park seeing them in a row coming out of the fog is awesome!
Richard | 13.01.13 - 4:56 p.m. | #
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Hmmm... I find myself drawn back to your post about 2013 anniversaries, and the comment I made about the increases in VAT since its introduction, from its early years at 10 and 8% to the current 20.
When you consider what VAT is, it's a massive revenue into the public coffers.
It defies comprehension, really, how they they've managed to DOUBLE the rate of VAT, yet they're still saying they haven't got enough to be able to maintain our public services, without major cuts.
Crazy.
RogerW | 13.01.13 - 6:48 p.m. | #
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That 1930s annexe is a hideous eyesore. Remember, kids - where buildings are concerned, just because it's old, doesn't make it beautiful.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 13.01.13 - 6:50 p.m. | #
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Ummm. BTW, we in the south east already lost Shooters Hill Police Station some time ago - it was converted into apartments.
Then Chislehurst... which is now a nice restaurant.
One of the more recent closures (2012) was the police station at Sidcup.
RogerW | 13.01.13 - 6:55 p.m. | #
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Have the powers that be never played Sim City?!
Ian Brooker | 14.01.13 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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First Boris did make people think he was a clown, and that it would be "funny" to vote for him.
Then he did cut the police.
And he did cut the fire engines.
And the tube ticket offices.
And people thought, that's outrageous, but hey he is a clown, and that it would be "funny" to vote for him. And how much funnier it would be if he was Prime Minister!
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 14.01.13 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Of course, if the government had not been so incompetent in the first place, they would be in a much better position now. But instead they managed to blow £469 MILLION on absolutely nothing at all with the epic failure of the fire control centres project.
http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/1012/failure_of_firecontrol.aspx
Government incompetence means: Don't have a fire....
Rob L | 14.01.13 - 3:44 p.m. | #
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Rob L - but which governmint was it that commissioned that project, and the failed ID cards one, and the cancelled NHS spine one... *thinks* ah yes, not the current one who are now taking all the flack...
If anyone knows a better way to balance the books (other than the old cliche, which won't work, 'tax the rich people more') then I'm all ears.
People need to wake up to the realisation that the country is in a hell of a mess financially, and that changes need to be made. Who knows, some of them might even be shown to be a good thing, a few years down the line. It's certainly making the public sector wake up to a few realisations that the private (generally non-service and non-banking) sector worked out years ago.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 14.01.13 - 10:34 p.m. | #
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Conservative newspapers like the Standard, Telegraph, Mail, etc spend a lot of time telling their readers the Conservatives are the party of Law & Order. They do this to cover for the fact they are not. The Conservative party have always cut public services. They are not interested in protecting the public from fires, and from criminals. They pretend this amount of cuts are necessary. They are not. They have found billions to do tax cuts for rich people earning over 150,000 per year. This exposes their lies.
The Conservatives are interested in the big businesses who fund their party, the businesses who are connected to the owners of the newspapers who write the spin stories promoting the Conservatives. You thought Labour had too much spin? This government is twice as bad. Every day the Labour goverment was attacked by the Mail, Telegraph, Standard, for too much spin. Now you hear nothing from these newspapers. They are protecting the rich. And still you all sit there on the Tube reading them.
Big businesses want to be sold public property so they can make a nice profit. The Conservatives are happy to give them it. This is pay-back for helping the Conservatives get into government.
This is the fundamental fact about the Conservative party. They take away from the public, and give to big business. Learn and understand this. People who do not understand are fools, and deserve every cut they get for voting them into government, under their deluded ideas. You voted for this, fools.
ConservativesKillingThisCountry | 19.01.13 - 12:53 a.m. | #
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Bow Police Station closed 22nd June 2013
http://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/rip-bow-police-station
diamond geezer | Homepage | 21.07.13 - 6:34 p.m. | #
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