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Contestata la chiusura notturna di quattro stazioni PSNI

Cut to stations’ opening hours slammed

The DUP has criticised the decision to close four of Northern Ireland’s busiest police stations at night.

Edwin PootsThe police stations at Lisburn, Antrim, Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus will not be open to the public from 11pm – 8am.

The changes, which will come into effect from April 1, have been dubbed an “outrageous decision” by the DUP.

“There has been no consultation and I think that they need to draw back and take into account the public view on this matter,” DUP MLA Edwin Poots told UTV.

“We recently got an assurance from the ACC that this wouldn’t be happening, and then a few months later they turned around and said they were going to close these stations at night to the public, and that’s not good enough.”

A police spokesman said they will continue to respond to anyone coming to a station in an emergency and said the decision has been taken to allow more officers to be deployed at night.

Last year the Policing Board agreed to sell off 26 police stations and revealed plans to shut another 25 bases.

At the time the police announced a review of nighttime staffing arrangements at larger stations would take place in the near future.

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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