Lib Dem councillors Lynne Featherstone and Melanie Simpson have expressed their concern following recent reports that three local police stations out of the five in the borough may face closure to make way for a police super station.

For many years the Lib Dems have worked closely with local police on a number of issues, most recently the prominent campaign to reopen Muswell Hill Police Station’s front desk. However the two Councillors, who both sit on the Council’s Crime and Community Safety Committee, were shocked by the news that three of the five stations in the borough could be closed to accommodate the super station.

Cllr. Featherstone, who is also a member of Met Police Authority, commented:

“I am quite disturbed by this report. I think that it would be a big mistake to close down three of our stations in the borough. Residents already find it hard enough to get to the existing stations as it is. To remove them would make a bad situation worse for many vulnerable sections in our community.

“Moreover at an MPA full authority meeting today I listened to Chief Commissioner John Stevens talk of ‘Local solutions for local people’. The kind of proposal we are hearing for Haringey flies in the face of this commitment.”

Cllr. Simpson added that no plans had been finalised yet:

“As a Met Police Estates Spokesman said, there is no blue print as yet. However it is important that we express the concerns of our local residents to the Met. Police before any final plans are drawn up.”