Meet PC Pod: Sussex police hope shed-sized station can cut crime

The station is about the size of a garden shed, roughly 8ft by 6ft, and will sit in the town centre for up to six months. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

As police stations go, it is not exactly big, but it is centrally located and visible from the far end of the high street, which is, according to the neighbourhood policing inspector for Crawley, part of the point.

“It encourages increasing engagement, it’s community reassurance and it acts as a preventive as well,” says Insp Steve Turner of Sussex police.