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‘Unfit’ police station to be closed after three-year fight

A PLAN to close Hampstead Police Station has emerged just three years after campaigners last fought to secure its survival.
Furious residents are now preparing to battle again with Camden Police chief Mark Heath to safeguard the grade-II listed building in Rosslyn Hill (pictured) after the cost-cutting plan was exposed.
Rumours of the proposal – part of a London-wide review of police property – had spread late last week and on Monday night Chief Superintendent Heath confirmed them.
Speaking to a packed, fractious meeting of the Camden Police Community Consultative Group at Conway Hall, Holborn, he said that the police station was “from another era and unfit for the purpose”, adding: “It looks fantastic from the outside but the inside is awful for modern policing – it’s just not useable at the moment.”
Responding to questions from Lib Dem spokesman Ed Fordham he said the extensive station, which currently houses Hampstead’s safer neighbourhood team of beat officers, has a counter for reporting crime and is used as a base for operations and training, could be replaced by a “shop front” office further up the High Street. He said traditional multi-purpose police stations were no longer effective and added: “We need to look at what the cost implications are of making it fit for its purpose.”
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