Addiscombe to lose its Safer Neighbour Team Police Sergeant due to budget cuts

On 26/09/2011, in Policing, Safer Neighbourhood Team, by Sean

Metropolitan Police confirmed today that a number of wards in Croydon will have to share their Sergeant without another ward’s Safer Neighbourhood Team. The Met Police stated that the number of PCSO’s and police officers in each team will not change. Addiscombe will lose its current Sergeant, Keith Lyons, and instead be overseen by Sergeant [...]

Riots in Croydon, Need for Local Inquiry

On 17/08/2011, in Croydon Council, Policing, Safer Neighbourhood Team, by Sean

It is just little over a week since the riots took place in Croydon on Monday 8th August 2011. Addiscombe which got off lightly compared to London Road or Church Street, but some premises still sustained damage. In the Addiscombe Ward, The TV Shop on Cherry Orchard Road lost stock following breaking of its shutters [...]