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Low traffic neighbourhoods could become crime hot spots , police warn
Police have found roads closed with planters and bollards are allowing criminal to flee officers making them potential criminal hot spots
19 December 2020 • 7:00pm
Campaigners against low traffic neighbourhoods have held a series of demonstrations across the country
Credit: Heathcliff O Malley 
Roads closed with planters and bollard as part of Grant Shapps’s “green transport revolution” risk creating crime “hot spots”, police have warned.
The Metropolitan Police Service has written to councils expressing “concerns” that street closures introduced to create low traffic neighbourhoods could slow 999 response times and even encourage criminals to favour those areas because they can more easily escape pursuing officers. ....

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