Fulwood Police Station closes its doors

Posted on - 31st May, 2014 - 6:00pm | Author - Ed Walker | Posted in - Fulwood, Lancashire Police, Preston News

Fulwood Police Station will be sold off to help Lancashire Police meet its savings target of £42 million over the next four years

A Preston police station which has kept watch over the people of Fulwood has closed.

Fulwood Police Station on Watling Street Road is to be sold by Lancashire Police.

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On Friday it was locked up for the last time.

The police station has not had response officers based there for five years. It was a neighbourhood policing station.

All staff who worked there are to be relocated to the central Preston Police station on Lancaster Road.

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The station has been used for more than 100 years.

In 2011 it was announced Fulwood would be one of a number of police stations to be closed and sold off, to raise £4.5 million for the police.

Image credit to Johnny English

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