Recently the Met Police force, under the direction of London Mayor Boris Johnson, paid an awfully large amount of money to deliver a leaflet to every home titled “WE’RE IMPROVING THE WAY WE POLICE YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD”.

They usefully highlight that non urgent crime reporting can take place by calling 101 or online somewhere within the  www.met.police.uk website.

They then state if you want to report something face to face that instead of having an East Dulwich Police  Station open 16 hours every day, which Boris had closed from 24 June, you should pop Dulwich Library on a Wednesday between 7-8pm.

The East Dulwich Safer neighbourhood Team has been further reduced. Originally under Ken Livingstone it was 1 sergeant, 2 PC’s and 3 PCSO’s. Under Boris the sergeant has had to be shared. Now we have a named sergeant but who has many other duties. One PC and one PCSO. So in theory we only have a third of the dedicated resources. But now that these limited resources are based in Camberwell without any forward base in East Dulwich or based with us locally as they used to be they’re time in East Dulwich is significantly reduced.

Taking all these facts into consideration it;s a weird claim that they’re improving the way we police neighbourhoods. Sadly we can;t take them the Advertising Standards Authority!