Anger as Met moves local police in Rotherhithe to site 45 minute walk away

Rotherhithe councillors Stephanie Cryan and Kath Whittam want the Met to reopen a police office in Rotherhithe as soon as possible - (Robert Firth / LDRS)

South London politicians have hit out at the Met after it moved local police to a station in central London -over a 45-minute walk away from the area.

Since the Met closed its office in Seven Islands Leisure Centre in Rotherhithe at the end of March, bobbies covering the area have been based three miles away at Southwark Police Station on Borough High Street.