The Metropolitan Police is grappling with a £260 million budget shortfall, which may lead to the closure of up to half its buildings. Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley highlighted that the ageing infrastructure, illustrated by a damaged ceiling and sewage issues at the Shoreditch station, requires urgent repairs. Without additional government funding, crime rates, particularly knife crime and violence against women and girls, could rise. Recent funding adjustments offer some relief, but Rowley warns that years of austerity have left police forces with lasting challenges.
"The systems are just so old, we keep patch repairing them, but they need to be ripped out and replaced."
"Unless the Met received more money in the government's Spending Review...London could experience sustained increases in knife crime, violence against women and girls, and theft."
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