A new office base in the Corby Cube for Northamptonshire Police has now opened, meaning that response officers will be spending more time in and around the town.
Launch of the new Corby Cube police base
Response officers will now be using a drop in base at the Corby Cube in George Street, alongside police officers and PCSOs from the town’s Neighbourhood Policing Team, who have moved across the road from their old base in Deene House.
Corby Cube already houses the Police Enquiry Desk on the first floor of the council building, which is open for the public to visit and get advice.
Bringing the police resources together under one roof in a central location will help to increase the responsiveness and visibility of the Force in Corby and the surrounding villages and is a response to changing circumstances and crime patterns in the county.
This local focus will be further enhanced next month, when Northamptonshire Police moves to a new structure and the creation of two territorial policing areas: Northamptonshire North covering Corby, East Northants, Kettering and Wellingborough and Northamptonshire West, covering Daventry, Northampton and South Northamptonshire.
The move to the Corby Cube will be an interim one while work takes place to create a new joint police and fire hub on the site of the town’s existing Corby Fire Station in Phoenix Parkway.
Northamptonshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Stephen Mold, said: “The Chief Constable’s new policing model will mean that Northamptonshire Police will provide a truly local response to local problems and is visible and accessible in the community it serves. That can only be a very good move and one that I support wholeheartedly.”
