Actually I think there's a lot of fire & rescue stations round here. If you were to drive 15 or 20 minutes away you'd probably be able to get to maybe 5. Considering they've been closing them around the country I think over the years that's a bit ofa cluster. However police stations are rare. 20/30 minutes one way and a bit longer the other, in another county though.
5 minutes away there's a large police house which had been decommissioned many decades ago. Same with the one in our village. I did meet an ex police officer who was based in it. Possibly the last! He was the grandfather of a kid at my son's primary school. We also looked around it before we saw our current house. It was a bit too big and expensive. Plus expensive too heat I reckon.
My previous town closed its police station and house. The village I lived before that closed its police house. The officer moved out but was still the area Bobby. He was a keen Gardner and wrote an article in the local neighbourhood watch newsletter. I only read it once. In his article he recommended plants to places under windows, around drainpipes etc that would deter burglars or mark them badly! One was a species of climbing euphorbia iirc that had long, vicious thorns that left really nasty weald that would last rather painfully for weeks. He argued that if the burglar persisted he'd get marked and he knew most of the local, operating burglars so he'd find out who did it and have enough to get a warrant. What a nice, sadistic copper!