we just got the word that the station is staying open. i am so happy we managed to protect our local police base and the stables too. thanks for sticking with me on this one because it really paid off.
December 30, 2012
Final supporters
Hampstead has launched a campaign to:
(a) maintain policing in the north of the borough and to keep a reasonable police presence in Hampstead;
(b) maintain a police station in Hampstead;
(c) keep the police stables in West Hampstead.
Police presence
Concerns have been raised by rumours indicating that the Metropolitan Police is seeking to sell-off 40 police buildings across London. These concerns are magnified locally as Labour-controlled Camden Council had previously identified Kentish Town as the location for a central police base in its Local Development Framework plan for the borough. When challenged, Labour councillors have refused to give calculations of the likely response time for the police to respond to 999 calls in Hampstead and West Hampstead if teams are patrolling from Kentish Town.
Conservatives have fought for many years to maintain a police station in Hampstead and are not giving up yet.
Hampstead police station
Ever since the move to borough-based policing under Tony Blair in the late 1990s and the subsequent increase in paperwork he inflicted on the police, response times to 999 calls in Hampstead have suffered. The station has been under threat several times in recent years, and it is feared that the Met is once again considering plans to sell it off. The police must provide us with assurances about their response times to incidents in Hampstead if they propose changes to policing here. In addition to keeping a police station in Hampstead, we want to preserve the current iconic building. The building is in bad need of refurbishment and languishes as decisions wait to be taken about its future. We must preserve it for future generations who, like us, will look to it as a beacon in our community.
Police stables in West Hampstead
Just three years ago, Chris Philp secured thousands of signatures on a petition to back a Conservative campaign to keep the then-threatened police stables in West Hampstead. We need to underline the point once more that we need the police horses to stay. The police horses provide residents with much more security, and this location is far more convenient for Central London than Wembley.
Residents need assurances that Labour Camden knows what is at stake, and Hampstead Conservatives will be putting down questions and a motion to demand answers at the next Full Council meeting.
We, therefore, call on the Met to:
(a) Maintain policing in the north of the borough and to keep a reasonable police presence in Hampstead;
(b) Maintain a police station in Hampstead;
(c) Keep the police stables in West Hampstead.
Please sign and comment in our petition on these issues which will later be hand delivered to London's Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Stephen Greenhalgh.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 24, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
August 27, 2012
7 Comments
I believe 20 - 30%, maybe more of the police budget, pays for their unfunded pensions. Making their pensions fully funded as those in the private sector, would release £millions. Why do they have an unfunded scheme?
The rising number of attacks against mothers walking with prams or mothers walking with their children to and from school is alarming. It makes us feel extremely vulnerable in what we believed to be a safe neighbourhood. Something must be done immediately to prevent further incidents like these.
We are not feeling safe in Hampstead, guys following us, guys cycling around looking for opportunities in front of our schools around drop off and pick up times....I had to teach my kids to walk quickly and that it is not safe around.
Absence of police presence anywhere leads to an inherent increase in muggings, robberies, pick pocketing and drug dealing which are usually ignored by police after the event.
Living in Hampstead for 15 years and honestly it has never felt this dodgy. You see people scouting houses in broad daylight and no cops around to do anything about it. We need our station kept open.
I am very concerned, my kids walk to school everyday, I fear for their safety,
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we just got the word that the station is staying open. i am so happy we managed to protect our local police base and the stables too. thanks for sticking with me on this one because it really paid off.
December 30, 2012
Final supporters
Hampstead has launched a campaign to:
(a) maintain policing in the north of the borough and to keep a reasonable police presence in Hampstead;
(b) maintain a police station in Hampstead;
(c) keep the police stables in West Hampstead.
Police presence
Concerns have been raised by rumours indicating that the Metropolitan Police is seeking to sell-off 40 police buildings across London. These concerns are magnified locally as Labour-controlled Camden Council had previously identified Kentish Town as the location for a central police base in its Local Development Framework plan for the borough. When challenged, Labour councillors have refused to give calculations of the likely response time for the police to respond to 999 calls in Hampstead and West Hampstead if teams are patrolling from Kentish Town.
Conservatives have fought for many years to maintain a police station in Hampstead and are not giving up yet.
Hampstead police station
Ever since the move to borough-based policing under Tony Blair in the late 1990s and the subsequent increase in paperwork he inflicted on the police, response times to 999 calls in Hampstead have suffered. The station has been under threat several times in recent years, and it is feared that the Met is once again considering plans to sell it off. The police must provide us with assurances about their response times to incidents in Hampstead if they propose changes to policing here. In addition to keeping a police station in Hampstead, we want to preserve the current iconic building. The building is in bad need of refurbishment and languishes as decisions wait to be taken about its future. We must preserve it for future generations who, like us, will look to it as a beacon in our community.
Police stables in West Hampstead
Just three years ago, Chris Philp secured thousands of signatures on a petition to back a Conservative campaign to keep the then-threatened police stables in West Hampstead. We need to underline the point once more that we need the police horses to stay. The police horses provide residents with much more security, and this location is far more convenient for Central London than Wembley.
Residents need assurances that Labour Camden knows what is at stake, and Hampstead Conservatives will be putting down questions and a motion to demand answers at the next Full Council meeting.
We, therefore, call on the Met to:
(a) Maintain policing in the north of the borough and to keep a reasonable police presence in Hampstead;
(b) Maintain a police station in Hampstead;
(c) Keep the police stables in West Hampstead.
Please sign and comment in our petition on these issues which will later be hand delivered to London's Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Stephen Greenhalgh.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 24, 2012
Reached 100 supporters
August 27, 2012
7 Comments
Police pensions are unfunded. Changing them to fully funded would release £millions to spend on actual policing.
I believe 20 - 30%, maybe more of the police budget, pays for their unfunded pensions. Making their pensions fully funded as those in the private sector, would release £millions. Why do they have an unfunded scheme?
The rising number of attacks against mothers walking with prams or mothers walking with their children to and from school is alarming. It makes us feel extremely vulnerable in what we believed to be a safe neighbourhood. Something must be done immediately to prevent further incidents like these.
We are not feeling safe in Hampstead, guys following us, guys cycling around looking for opportunities in front of our schools around drop off and pick up times....I had to teach my kids to walk quickly and that it is not safe around.
Absence of police presence anywhere leads to an inherent increase in muggings, robberies, pick pocketing and drug dealing which are usually ignored by police after the event.
Living in Hampstead for 15 years and honestly it has never felt this dodgy. You see people scouting houses in broad daylight and no cops around to do anything about it. We need our station kept open.
I am very concerned, my kids walk to school everyday, I fear for their safety,
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Police pensions are unfunded. Changing them to fully funded would release £millions to spend on actual policing.