During my lifetime we have gone from neighbourhood policing with a constable on a bike or patrolling the area on foot to whizzing about in hi-tech cars with all the costly equipment more associated with the paramilitary. Two Echo stories side by side: Closure of Ferndown Police Station and cutting numbers of desks to save over £9million and child abduction worry.
Where did it all go Pete Tong?
Brian Galpin Tatnam Road, Poole
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