OPINION - I re-opened police stations and won back trust: London should do the same
When police forces closed police enquiry offices 15 years ago, Britain was a different place, with severe financial pressures on public services after the financial crash of the late Noughties, and technology which wasn’t yet fit for the 21st century.
As a police and, I know that there has been a huge investment into policing since then. However, it has not yet been matched by an increase in public confidence, the relationship on which our policing model depends for safer communities.
