Except where I now live we have two policemen at the entrance of the apartment block. One of them kindly returned my ID card the other day - I'd dropped it getting out of a taxi near the entrance. But as you guessed, this isn't Britain. In our village in Cumbria, the County sold off the police station and Magistrates Court and now it's a Weatherspoons. Closest manned station - about 20 miles away, although a PCSO does share a broom cupboard in the Crapita-run council offices nearby.