Exclusive: Police stations across the UK have been shutting their doors at a rate of more than one per week since 2010
an area with the country’s highest rate of knife crime per capita
"We’ve been aware that police stations have been closing at an alarming rate for a long time… You hear stories about serious crimes that have happened outside of police stations, and it does make you think 'could those crimes have been prevented had funding been provided by police authorities to keep them open?'"Picture: Alamy
In an interview with LBC, Kohler said the Home Office’s inability to answer how many stations had closed since 2010 showed "how contemptuous they [the department] are of the issue".
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