I seem to recall Sadiq Khan making a great deal of fuss about his predecessor's form on closing police stations during his tenure yet here we are:
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Sadiq Khan is planning to close half of London’s remaining 73 police station front counters, it emerged on Thursday.
The Mayor’s officials are drawing up a blueprint to keep just one 24-hour police station open to the public in every borough.
Four additional front counters would be retained across central London — including a new one at Paddington Green — that would open during office hours.
The Met Police and Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime have been looking at police station closures for more than six months.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3570731.html
He's blaming govt. cuts but I wonder what sort of fuss he'd be making now if he'd failed in his quest to become Mayor and a Tory was at the helm and doing the very same thing for the same reason... Accusations of out of touch Tories who don't care about ordinary people's lives and problems etc. etc. etc.
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When Boris Johnson cut police station front counters in 2013, Mr Khan criticised the move and suggested Londoners could be forced to report crime at police “contact points” in McDonald’s restaurants.
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Khan's got what he wanted and now he's rightly going to cop the sort of flak that he's quite well used to dishing out. I hope he enjoys it.