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Parks Police and redundant Dogs
Seems like Haringey Council are about to make a decision to cut the Parks Police service, making ten police constables and three police dogs redundant !
Seems to me that this is daft as I think they must have spent quite a bit of money setting them although this might have come from the Finsbury Park Partnership which not longer exists!
I guess they took it on when it was free but are not prepared to have an operational budget for it. (Same will happen on Parklland Walk once the TfL money is used up).
Reducing police is not a great idea in Finsbury Park as we seem to be having a bit more in the way of muggings etc around the area and probably will get more if we get a recession.
Anyway if you fell so inclined the LibDems have set up petition at http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/parkspolice which is an easy way of protesting
Seems to me that this is daft as I think they must have spent quite a bit of money setting them although this might have come from the Finsbury Park Partnership which not longer exists!
I guess they took it on when it was free but are not prepared to have an operational budget for it. (Same will happen on Parklland Walk once the TfL money is used up).
Reducing police is not a great idea in Finsbury Park as we seem to be having a bit more in the way of muggings etc around the area and probably will get more if we get a recession.
Anyway if you fell so inclined the LibDems have set up petition at http://campaigns.libdems.org.uk/parkspolice which is an easy way of protesting
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Over the last year and a half, I've been doing the British Military Fitness thing in the park on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. In the summer, the park stays open until 9pm or later, so it's not a problem. In the winter months, however, the security people/police/whoever they are lock the gates whenever the hell they feel like it. This has resulted in myself and other BMFers having to get down on our stomachs and crawl under the gate by the cycle park or climb through holes in the fence to get out of the park. Because the gates are always shut at different times, we wind up wandering around the perimeter, shivering in the dark, trying to find the nearest way out.
Several people have written to the council about this. Their solution was to send out a memo advising us not to climb under the gate because it may collapse. Fucking fantastic.