Clapham Police Stations under threat
Closures as Police plan to retreat to industrial estate
Metropolitan Police Officials have confirmed that Clapham Police Stations are under threat as part of a programme that would see over 60 stations across London close.
Scotland Yard bureaucrats want to see police based in shops, supermarkets and even industrial estates, despite concerns expressed by many front line officers.
Local residents have voiced disquiet about the plan saying there needs to be a permanent police station in our area. Under the plan the nearest Operational Police Base would be on an industrial estate in East Brixton, meaning a poorer service in Clapham as response times would increase as police vehicles would have travel through Brixton to get here.
Conservative Action
Conservative Councillors are putting pressure on Labour Lambeth to reverse their support for the closure plans which are supported by the Labour Assembly member for Lambeth & Southwark at City Hall.
Conservative members of the Metropolitan Police Authority have already forced the Met to consult on each proposed closure after it emerged they planned to railroad the closures through.
Local campaigner Nick Maund said: “Labour seem to want to destroy all our local services. Not content with closing our library, demolishing our swimming pool and shutting our sub post offices they now want to close our local police station and move our bobbies to the other side of Brixton.”
