Kettering police station to close front desk

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Kettering police station's front office services will be shut in April next year.

Northamptonshire Police plan to shut the service at the Kettering station in just four months.

People with inquiries or wanting to report incidents are being asked to go to the nearby borough council offices.

Supt Andy Cox told the Northants Telegraph: “I hope people will be happy to see police staff when they call into the council offices and maybe consider coming to us for some crime prevention advice or to report an incident while they’re paying their council tax or speaking to a housing officer.”

County councillors have already issued warnings over plans to close the police stations in Kettering, Wellingborough and Rushden.

Labour leader Cllr John McGhee told Northants Telegraph: “They are a front-line service. I know my constituents like to go and speak to someone directly.”

Whilst Labour county councillor Mick Scrimshaw admitted that people would be 'concerned'.

He told the Northants Telegraph: “I think the annoying thing is that this has been done to save money and not to offer a better service."

By Stephen Matthews