Police volunteer wins Met’s special award

10:52am Tuesday 8th April 2003

A POLICE volunteer has received a prestigious award from the Met for successfully campaigning to reopen a police station.

Janet Logan, who managed to get Brockley police station, in Howson Road, reopened 18 months ago following two years of closure, was handed her specially-commissioned trophy by Commissioner Sir John Stevens at a City Hall ceremony.

The 45-year-old has also helped raise more than £160,000 for a pioneering police shop to open by the end of the year.

She said: "The award is really for all the volunteers at Brockley. We are very busy.

"It's important for the community to know there's a station here."

When the station closed in 1999, Janet campaigned to get it reopened and managed to recruit 10 volunteers who now staff the front counter.

She has also helped citizens' advice, victim support, trading standards and other agencies to set up surgeries in the station.

The station will be shut when the borough's new police station opens in October but Mrs Logan has helped raise more than £160,000 for a police shop and advice centre to open in Brockley Road.

Funding comes from Government, Met and other grants, and money raised from fundraising events. A sergeant, inspector and 10 beat managers will be based at the shop, which will be run by the volunteers.