Ealing: MP fears at police opening hours

Steve Pound MP has backed calls for Greenford Police Station to be opened for longer in the evening – reports the Ealing & Acton Gazette.

The Ealing North MP backed residents after a series of violent incidents left people feeling "insecure".

He said: "The station is not fit for purpose. It needs to be refurbished and improved so that it can be staffed throughout the night.

"There seems to have been an increase of crimes in the area and people would feel more secure if the station was opened longer."

Last month, a student was stabbed after getting off a bus in The Broadway, while gangs of professional pick-pockets have been targeting shoppers in the busy thoroughfare.

However, funding longer opening hours will take more money and Mr Pound needs to explain where’s that money going to come from. Perhaps he shouldn’t, as he intends to, vote to waste an extra £2.5bn a year on the EU – a 60% increase over current payments?

Especially given there’s no justification for handing the EU such a vast amount extra while auditors can’t tell us how the majority of what we already pay is being spent.

But if Mr Pound doesn’t like that idea, he needs to come up with a better one.

Demanding in newspapers that public services like the police do more, while voting to waste vast amounts of public money on the EU that could help improve their work, is surely simply posturing.

That's unlikely to go down well with Ealing voters, come the next election.