Lib Dems call for police desks in supermarkets and libraries

Paul SeddonPolitical reporter
Getty ImagesLiberal Democrats want every police force in England and Wales to open meters in places such as supermarkets, shopping centers and libraries.
The party said that the movement would increase the people’s confidence in policing and make it easier for people to report and share information.
He says that the costs of the increasing asset can be scrapped by police and criminal officers (PCCs), the elected officials who control the forces.
The party announced its policy at the beginning of its four -day annual conference in Bournemouth on Saturday.
Lib DEMS said that his research has shown a “shocking” decline in the number of front meters in the police stations in the last decade.
The party’s interior spokesman Hazel Grove Deputy Lisa Smart, BBC Radio 4’s Today program, people “the police did not see frequently” and “this is not as difficult as” he said.
In a speech on Saturday, he will say that it has followed the interruptions under the previous conservative government and that the worker has so far offers “a little more than meaningless sounds” about community policing.
Lib DEMS did not specify exactly how many new meters should be opened, but at least one meter was opened in every local council area in England and Wales.
He says that the costs of the plan will be covered by Axing Police Commissaries, whom the party predicted over 100 million pounds in four years. It was also allocated For rural crime teams.
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‘Very few people’
Lib DEMS says that the tables will not fulfill all their functions of the police stations, but will allow people to share information and report the crime.
This means that they sometimes have a more comprehensive role than the engagement centers or opened tables used by neighborhood police teams established in places such as libraries and community centers.
Some forces also tried Installing touch screen terminals Supermarkets to increase crime reporting rates.
Almost half of London’s remaining station front meters set to close To save costs. Metropolitan police started to close the front meters in 2013.
Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of the capital of the capital, had previously promised to keep a bench of at least 24 hours in each of the 32 districts.
However, last week, the meters were used only by “very few people”, and the savings of 7 million pounds produced by interruptions will be spent better on an improved command and control center, he said.
Lib Dem activists are gathered in Bournemouth for the autumn conference, which will reach its peak in a speech by the party’s leader Sir Ed Davey.
The party, which won the seats with TORY to take the number of MPs in the last year’s general elections to 72, is expected to use the activity to address more liberal conservative voters by presenting itself as a simple patriotic party.
Party strategists believe that the party can help to open more opportunities than Tories in areas such as Surrey, Hertfordshire and Devon.
However, the party also faces a war for attention with the new leadership in the British Opinion Surveys, the Green Party, and the former workers’ leader Jeremy Corbyn. Establish a new political party.






