Labour Blocks Bid to Save Police Front Desk

3 Mar 2026

More broken promises by Labour! In his last election manifesto, Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan pledged to keep “a 24-hour police front office counter in every borough.”

He has broken that promise. Now police front desks across London face cuts and closures, including at Chingford Police Station, which is the last police front desk in Waltham Forest.

In January, members of the London Assembly had the chance to join the Liberal Democrats and push back against these closures.

Instead, every Labour and every Green assembly member voted to block a Lib Dem amendment that would have required at least one 24-hour police counter to be kept open in each borough.

Liberal Democrat campaigner Naomi McCarthy said, “Labour is failing Londoners yet again with broken promises. They are clearly not serious about providing the public with easy access to the police.”

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