West Mercia reveals future of police stations in Worcestershire

1:41pm Thursday 21st February 2013 in News By Tom Edwards

West Mercia reveals future of our police stations West Mercia reveals future of our police stations

WEST Mercia police are this afternoon holding a press conference about the future of police stations in Worcestershire.

Our politics reporter Tom Edwards is at police headquarters at Hindlip, and is reporting on the key decisions as they are made.

Follow his live report below. You can join the debate by leaving a comment at the end of the story, tweet using #PoliceWN, text us on 80360 WN News, or email letters@worcesternews.co.uk.

Click here to read the force's statement about the changes.

Comments(2)

DAVID1875 says...
3:47pm Thu 21 Feb 13

So we go from 145 local teams down to 82. So presumeably, each team will be larger in police officer/CSO numbers as they will be covering a larger area? More worrying is all these areas previously covered by police stations will now be just "community policing posts". Presumeably this will adversely affect police response times as police will have to come from further away to attend local incidents. And if the chief constable is so enthusiastic about selling off police buildings, why hasn't he agreed to sell off the most expensive building of the lot...Hindlip Hall, his headquarters? There is nothing stopping him and other senior police being based at Worcester Police Station...after all we're all in it together!

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wooshman says...
5:58pm Thu 21 Feb 13

Half a plan no dates no alternative locations announced and no mention how the local policing staff are going to patrol 85 areas instead of the 145 I don't expect they will be able to walk them so back in the cars then

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