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We need a local police station, AND community police officers on the streets after dark.

with the dark evenings now and with christmas around the corner (meaning more people carrying cash) I suspect we may well see an increase in this.

As a woman I must admit I'm always on edge walking home from work in the dark

The police station at Whately Road was un-manned for years at night before it eventually closed. It was a useful place to be able to report events during the working week - but it is police out on the streets patrolling, not in the canteen or behind the desk, which will act as a crime deterrent. We are much closer to a police station, even now, than most people who live in the country, or in the big suburbs of the towns.


Having a bunch of cops sitting behind desks in Whately Road was never a comfort, seeing foot, or even car patrols was. We don't, in fact, need a police station back - we do need intelligent local policing which, if there is any upswing of local crime in Dulwich will place resources here to counter it - moving them on when the job is done. We also need good intelligence, and the reports on this forum (echoed, one would hope, by reports to the police themselves) will help here.

I find it hard to believe that scum walking around ED with balaclavas etc can't be spotted or searched or picked up by the wonderful police. I say again - ED residents are like gazelle being picked off at the whim of the criminal scum.

We used to have a police station but the local politicos were too busy flirting with Waitrose etc, and knocking down hospitals to build schools for the kids. No hospital to look after you when you've been violently mugged, & no cops. Still, you can eat waitrose in a picture house.

That's really unfair unlurked. "local politicos" fought to keep East Dulwich Police station for many many years. We stopped Ken Livingstone closing it. We stopped Boris the first time he tried. We failed the second time Boris decided to close it after he stated bold as brass he never would only in May 2012.

Amazingly "local politicos" are able to work on more than one problem at a time.


Knocking down hospitals. We fought against the Dulwich Hospital being down sized and part s being knocked down. We tried 'saving the onions'. But now it has been seriously downsized and much knocked down we have to work with that reality.


I'm amazed you're then criticising us for wanting to make sure we have enough school places and would like to have the ability to see a film at a cinema in East Dulwich.


We all need to look out for each other more. AND report everything to the Police either as 999 or 101. Currently the Police are chuffed that reported crime has gone down so much and they think this re enforces their decision to close the Police station and largely withdraw from the area. The Police haven't done any research to see how much of any such reduction is due to closing the Police station where people often reported crime!

James Barber Wrote:

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Currently the Police are chuffed that

> reported crime has gone down so much and they

> think this re enforces their decision to close the

> Police station and largely withdraw from the area.


> The Police haven't done any research to see how

> much of any such reduction is due to closing the

> Police station where people often reported crime!


xxxxxxx


Oh dear oh dear.


It would be sort of funny except that it isn't.

Remember that you can report non-urgent crimes online and the police will give you a call back with a crime reference number (if appropriate) and to talk it through.


Lots of info on which number/process to use on the Met's website

https://online.met.police.uk/

pc adrian crust was, and still is, our local beat bobby. sadly he has to get here from camberwell these days. I still see him round and about, but not s much as before. lordship lane is still a thriving shopping street and thieves are just as enthusiastic and devious. it is just that you have to phone up and hope someone will come back to you.

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