Last year, I wrote to the Mayor of London about the closure of the volunteer-run front desk at Pinner Police Station, and then again in February after a response to an FOI request failed to justify this decision.
What followed was a triple disappointment; instead of responding directly, Sadiq Khan delegated the matter to the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, in a rather self-congratulatory letter received by my office the day before the closure and which failed to address the concerns raised.
This pertains mostly to repair costs. Volunteers were told that £600k was required to meet safety and security standards that would enable them to continue to provide a front desk service to the public. There was no mention of this at all in the response from the Deputy Mayor.
Although now closed, I will continue to press both the Mayor and Metropolitan Police because residents and volunteers deserve full transparency around this decision.
