(30 Sep 2026, 3:25 pm)Adrian wrote There's only so much any Council or Combined Authority can do on this. The root of the problem stems from the cuts to Policing in 2010, and that we're still suffering from to this day.

• Police officers were cut from 2010 (171,600 FTE) and that number now sits at 145,886 FTE
  
• PCSO numbers have been cut by about 53% from 16,918 FTE to 7,259 FTE
  
• Population growth over the same period is around 6.5m
  

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...march-2026

It's not just that either. It's the cuts to all other services since 2010. Alcohol & drug abuse and anti-social behaviour was always typically handled under multi-agency approach, but either those agencies don't exist, or they don't have the funding to be as proactive as they'd like to be. It relies on members of the public reporting incidents.

See I kinda disagree, obviously police has a play but bar the skinny ineffective Metro security team (because their as effective as a tea pot in the main), as far as I'm aware there's absolutely zero security team at all employed by Nexus.

The area is missing something like TFL's TSEO team which is here to deal with this sort of stuff and only cost £7.8m for 240 officers last year (we don't need anything near that) seems an absolute bargain.

These should be the ones getting deployed in the likes of Haymarket, Park Lane, the Coast Metro stations, Northumberland Park, North Shields, South Shields and actually get some presence to actually deal with stuff. 

Like someone mentioned with Cardiff, if you had visible security they'd soon shift elsewhere and then that's someone else's problem.