Emergency Services
Leatherhead is served by these emergency services:
- Surrey Police. Leatherhead Police Station is now closed.Everything is handled from Dorking Police Station.
- South East Coast Ambulance Service as of 1 July 2006, is the local NHS Ambulance Services Trust. The Surrey Ambulance Service, Sussex, and Kent ambulance services have merged, and have now ceased to exist independently.
- Surrey Fire & Rescue Service, actually just inside Fetcham, but called Leatherhead Fire Station and manned by a full time crew.
- 1 x Water Tender Ladder
- 1 x Water Carrier
- Hospital, small NHS unit with no A&E. It is used for outpatients and rehabilitation. A&E for the Leatherhead area is at Epsom General Hospital.
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