Fears over future of Llanfyllin police station
Thursday 17th June 2010, 12:04PM BST.
A Mid Wales town’s police station is being left unmanned and there are fears it could close altogether, it has been claimed.
Llanfyllin Town Council claims officers at the town’s police station are being sent to cover Welshpool. And fears are surfacing over the future of the police station building itself, councillors have claimed.
The claims came at last night’s town council meeting where members said while a police car was often parked outside the station, it did not necessarily mean officers were in the town.
The town council is calling for a senior police officer to come to a meeting to explain police staffing.
Dyfed-Powys Police was unable to comment today but said it was looking into the matter.
At last night’s meeting Councillor Peter Lewis said Llanfyllin’s community police officers were currently having to work in Welshpool, leaving the town without any police coverage.
He said: “I was reassured by Inspector Diane Davies that this was only a temporary measure but it is still leaving us unmanned.”
He said he was concerned for the long term future of the station with rumbling from police estates departments about saving funds by cutting costs on properties.
Mayor Councillor Ian Jones said: “We are in a low crime area but that is because we have had police officers with local knowledge. We deserve better.”
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This is yet another extremely poor decision made by people who have no concept at all of the need for local policing. If we need the assistance of the police in an emergency, we are directed to an operator many miles to the south of us. This operator has absolutely no knowledge of the area, and consequently, a response to any emergency takes a disproportionate amount of time. No reflection on the officers who do their best but they often bear the brunt of people’s frustration and anger at poor response times.
If this or any government wish to be serious about tackling crime, they need to look back at least 40 years to see how real policing worked – and yes, it did. My father was a policeman and I know how he and his colleagues served the community well – they knew one another.
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