22 July 2025, 08:38

By Susan Hall

The Metropolitan Police's announcement that they plan to close police station counters represents nothing short of an impending disaster for ordinary Londoners.

This isn't just about budgets and bureaucracy - it's about our police force being made to abandon those who need them most desperately because of the financial situation Labour has left them in.

For decades, the local police station has been a vital part of civic life. It has been a beacon of safety, a place where residents could walk in off the street and speak to an officer face-to-face. For our elderly residents, many of whom are not comfortable with online reporting systems or phone queues, the police station counter has been their lifeline to justice. For vulnerable people who have been victims of crime, it has provided a safe space to report incidents with dignity and human compassion.

What sort of a city will we be when, in the middle of a crime wave, you can no longer walk into a police station to report the crime you see?

This devastating proposal is the direct result of Sir Sadiq Khan and the Labour........

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