Cells, stables and a smart new look for police station
HAMMERSMITH HQ REOPENS AFTER MAJOR REFURBISHMENT
More than 1,000 officers will now be based from Hammersmith Police Station, which has reopened after a refurbishment that began four years ago.
The station is now the headquarters of the Met’s Central West Basic Command Unit, which replaced the separate borough commands for Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea.
It includes 38 cells and 18 stables, which will ensure a mounted police presence can be deployed to the three local football grounds of Fulham, Chelsea and Queen’s
Park Rangers. Located in Shepherd’s Bush Road, the grade II-listed Hammersmith Station also has a 24-hour front counter which is due to open on Tuesday, September 29.
The front counter which has been in place in Shepherd’s Bush since 2016 will close on the same date.
Redevelopment of the station, originally built in 1939, began four years ago and it was originally planned to reopen in 2019.
The station will also provide a new home for local Neighbourhood Policing Teams, Roads and Transport Policing Command, the Emergency Response Policing Team and a Criminal Investigations Department.
Chief superintendent
Helen
Harper said: “We are delighted that Hammersmith is now ready for use and our staff have already started moving in.
“The refurbishment project has transformed an old, tired building into an amazing, modern, fit-forpurpose hub which will bring lots of our services together.