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Police welcome new hub that brings emergency services together
16/03/2021
The multi-million pound Furness Peninsular Blue Light Hub, located next to the A590 in Ulverston, is a combined emergency response centreÂ
Police in Cumbria have welcomed the opening of a hub that brings emergency services together.
The Ulverston-based hub will host all three blue light emergency services with police officers operational from April 1.
The hub opened on March 8, creating an operational base which will bring together the countyâs police, fire and rescue and ambulance services under one roof.
The police officers being placed in Ulverston will be the newest team to join the pilot programme of reintroducing officers being deployed from the rural communities in which they serve.
BOOST: Dan St Quintin, Detective Inspector for Safeguarding at Cumbria Police DRUGS crime and antisocial behaviour are among the issues being better targeted as a result of a dramatic expansion in rural policing across Cumbria. Over the last year, dozens of officers have been relocated to rural communities such as Brampton, Longtown, and Keswick, strengthening police links with rural communites. The initiative was funded by Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Peter McCall through an increase in Council Tax and extra Government funding - part of the so-called Operation Uplift. Cumbria Police recruited 51 more officers in the first phase of the operation,which saw pilot schemes in areas of south Cumbria as well as in Brampton and Longtown.
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