The Royal Parks Constabulary was abolished in 2006, y The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, and its policing responsibilities were taken over by the Metropolitan Police, who created the Metropolitan Police’s Royal Parks Operational Command Unit (POCU) . Many officers from the Royal Parks Constabulary transferred to the Metropolitan Police’s POCU. Now it transpires that the POCU will be abolished

POCU carries out the policing of crime and disorder in the Royal Parks which includes the Mall and surroundings, and parks such as Green Park, St James’s Park, Hyde Park, Richmond Park, etc and is headquartered in Hyde Park Police Station.

It was announced in February 2025 that the POCU may be cut to help meet the cuts in the Metropolitan Police’s budget and these cuts to the POCU could have a “dramatic impact” and lead to “serious consequences”. Cuts to the POCU (Parks Police) will lead to a loss of police coverage in the Royal Parks and their immediate vicinity in the interests of costs cuts and, when the number of police officers is reduced following the change, there will be problems.

Even with the POCU (Parks Police) in place, it is “necessary often to pull in police officers from nearby units, and that is usually from Vincent Square. After the change, as the number of police officers will be dramatically reduced, this will get worse with the result that the officers from Vincent Square will be pulled in more often when issues kick off in the Parks area, resulting in less operational police in Vincent Square.

The changes will mean that the Parks and their areas will be much less safe, especially for girls and women and the extent of crime and antisocial behaviour in those areas will rocket. As a result, this will also stretch the officers from Vincent Square, resulting in more problems with crime and antisocial behaviour in Vincent Square, our streets will be much less safe, especially for girls and women, drug dealing will explode in the parks with a knock-on effect on Vinvent Square.

ReformUK is not represented on Westminster Council, but Westminster Council must have been consulted, but you could be forgiven for asking why is it not in either Labour’s or the Conservatives election flyers ???

The answer is simple.

Labour don’t tell you as it is their cuts.

Neither Labour and the Conservatives want to tell you locally either because the Labour-Conservative Westminster Council did nothing.

Vote Nick Lockett, ReformUK – Vincent Square

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