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Guy Hatton
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| | Posted on Monday, February 23, 2004 - 10:03 am: |       |
This story appeared on Yahoo news today, and may be of interest to anybody interested in the architectural/police history of the capital, as it may result in many police stations being turned to new, non-police uses:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040223/325/emp7s.html
Police to move to supermarkets and offices
LONDON (Reuters) - London's police force is planning to sell off or lease more than half its buildings and open stations in supermarkets, office blocks and industrial estates, in a radical shake up of its property.
Metropolitan Police Property Services said on Monday it wanted to replace around 60 percent of its buildings over the next ten years, which have an estimated value of around 1.5 billion pounds.
"Increasing officer numbers, shifting crime hot spots, changing demographic borough growth and the threat of terrorism all require radical thinking to ensure we deliver complex frontline policing needs with an affordable solution," Property Services Director Alan Croney said.
"With the wide range of threats now facing our society, police buildings need to be resilient and operational at times of crisis."
Under the banner "Building Towards the Safest City", some buildings will be sold, some leased out and others refurbished. New police station and patrol bases will open alongside police kiosks and mobile stations to cope with specific incidents.
Croney said London policing was already changing: "This covers everything from locating a police station in a supermarket to leasing modern, open plan office space as part of our changing administration infrastructure."
Some 35 percent of London's police buildings date back to before 1935 and there is a 52 million pound maintenance backlog doubling every two years.
Metropolitan Police Property Services has more than 600 operations buildings used by around 42,000 police officers and civilian staff.
Nicholas Long, of the Metropolitan Police Authority, which makes the force's budget decisions, said it "recognises that some response teams may be better located on industrial parks and that in future, police stations should be closer to places such as shopping centres".
Cheers
Guy
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Monty
Chief Inspector
Username: Monty
Post Number: 776
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:21 am: | |
Guy,
Lisa Turner has already posted a link to this story on the Missing Police Files ? thread further down..
....pay attention man, lives are at stake !
Seriously, it also begs the question regarding archive material....I wonder where Tumblety's mug shot went ??
Monty
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Guy Hatton
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 - 8:44 am: | |
Drat! I think I can be forgiven for not seeing the immediate relevance to missing files, though?
I don't have as much time to go through everything here as thoroughly as I once did - apologies to Lisa for overlooking her well-timed post.
Cheers
Guy |
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