241800
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 241800
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 13th April 2023. Please find below the response to your request:
Could you please provide me with the following information:
- The number of police stations in your force area 2. The number of police stations in your force area which have closed down since 2011 (please state if any have subsequently reopened) 3. The number of cells available for permanent use in your force area 4. The number of cells mothballed or in only temporary use in your force area
Reply
- 33 Police stations and 5 Divisional Headquarters (this includes safer neighbourhood offices)
- Shrewsbury Town Centre - closed 2019
Newport Police station - closed 2016
Shifnal – closed in 2015 but has reopened in part of the former station
Much Wenlock - closed in 2019
Ironbridge – closed in 2015
Peterchurch – relocated to Peterchurch Fire Station in 2019
Stourport County Buildings – relocated to Stourport Civic Centre in 2019
Ellesmere – Closed in 2019, temporary relocated to and reopened in 2022 at the Town Council Offices
Bromsgrove – closed and relocated to a new Police and Fire building in Bromsgrove
Dorrington Mill – Closed 2013
Frankley – closed in 2020
Broadway – closed in 2017
Crabs Cross – closed in 2014
Kingfisher shopping centre – closed in 2013
Worcester Guild Hall – closed in 2014
Comberton Road Kidderminster – closed in 2014
- Note – We are unable to go back prior to 2013 and some of these were safer neighbourhood offices in other buildings not owned by the OPCC
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- 33