There's a local police force in North London

The Metropolitan Police do lots of jobs here in London. but patrolling local parks is not usually one of their jobs.

What if the Council disbanded the Parks Police ? Would anyone notice ?
Find out who they are at http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/community_and_leisure/greenspaces/parks_constabulary.htm
Well, shall I ask another question to put that in perspective ? Who knows that there’s a local Parks Police in north London ? They’ve been going for six or eight years. Because the London Metropolitan Police are so busy and over-stretched on the streets and highways they never have a chance to go into the parks. Every borough has ten to fifty local parks, and we have thirty-two local authorities in London. That’s a lot of parks, where the police never patrol. There’s a bit more about the local Haringey Parks Police at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haringey_Parks_Constabulary .

There’s a nasty rumour that Haringey Council is going to disband this small but effective local police force . That would be a shame, because they do a much-needed job, actually walking and cycling and driving across the parks and footpaths (they patrol part of the London Walking ring [ see www.walklondon.org.uk - that’s 75 miles long !!]).
I used to work in Tottenham (in Haringey) and the park behind that school was notorious for knife-toting gangs going there to settle their differences. Yes, the Parks Police patrol there, as well as the other twenty-five or more Haringey parks. The ones I visit regularly are Finsbury Park, and the Parkland Walk [ see more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_Walk ].
So, when push comes to shove, I’d like the Council to find a way to keep the police force in place. They do too important a job in the community, to get rid of them just to save money.