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Camden New Journal - By CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
Published: 17 January 2008

Sadie Frost

Call for more police as designer is burgled again

FORMER councillor Johnny Bucknell has called for more police in Primrose Hill just days after the home of clothes designer Sadie Frost was burgled for the second time in three months.
Mr Bucknell, who has a family business in St George’s Mews off Regent’s Park Road, said the area is a “poor relation” of Camden Town in terms of police patrols.
Ms Frost, 42, was at home with her children when burglars struck on Friday evening, making off with a laptop and cash. Just three months earlier she was subjected to a similar raid, as her family slept upstairs. Her shop in Camden Passage, in Islington was broken into before Christmas,
Former Tory councillor Mr Bucknell said: “The majority of policing should be prioritised to Camden Town, but Primrose Hill should have its own Safer Neighbourhoods Panel.”
The Safer Neighbourhood scheme, set up four years ago under community policing head Supt Martin Richards, allocates dedicated officers to each ward. Primrose Hill currently shares its officers with Camden Town.
Describing the area as “the wild west frontier of Primrose Hill”, Mr Bucknell added: “There is no other ward with such polarity like Primrose Hill being annexed with Camden Town.”
Supt Richards said: “The whole of that ward is represented by a Citizens’ Panel. The Safer Neighbourhoods team work to what that panel want them to work towards. If that panel see a problem with burglary and they want that panel to tackle it as a priority, they will.”

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