https://app.portsmouth.co.uk/full_page_image/page-5-1895/content.html
Brilliant !!! We need greater visibility of, and access to, our local police.
On the face of it, opening new, or reopening existing police stations is a good idea.
But, if our local area cop shops are anything to go by, access is likely to be limited.
For my home area you can only call in to Waterlooville Police Station on a Thursday or a Friday between 08:00 and 16:00 but not lunchtimes. Accessible for just two days out of seven.
For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday you have to toddle over to Havant Police Station but again, avoid lunchtimes. A bit better, they are open three days out of seven.
Obviously for emergencies you dial 999 on any phone and, if you are lucky, the police will come. For non emergency situations there is 101 but my own personal experience of using that number is that you end up in a queue. Almost as bad as trying to get a doctors appointment.
If you get mugged in Waterlooville and have your phone nicked, better hope its on a Thursday or a Friday and not lunchtime. Otherwise you need to find a public phone box that hasn’t been vandalised.
If you can’t walk in to your local police station to report a crime or obtain advice then what is the point.
WrAnTz 
So many places are in need of more police officers and stations