Plans include creating a new £44m Operation Command Centre in Speke  and the £26m refurbishment of Merseyside Police Headquarters in Canning Place.

The ten-year plan will also provide community police stations for each neighbourhood and save £2.5m every year on the cost of running the present police estate.

Merseyside Police’s estate currently consists of 78 buildings, with an average age of 52 years and some dating as far back as 1890.

The last police station built on Merseyside was the station on Stanley Road, Kirkdale, back in the seventies.

They currently cost more than £12m each year to run and this bill is increasing.

Every community will have a neighbourhood team of officers and PCSOs.

New or refurbished area headquarters will be provided in each of the five local authority areas and community police stations will be developed where old police stations are currently closed to the public.

Merseyside Police’s Commissioner Jane Kennedy said: “These are hard times, but I am committed to providing accessible and visible policing for every community.

“I want to invest in modern police stations and save money too.

“Merseyside Police’s buildings desperately need to be upgraded. Our stations and facilities are no longer fit to serve the public or fit for the officers, PCSOs and staff that work in them.

“By transforming our estate, creating more efficient and effective buildings, we will be protecting frontline policing and putting officers where the public want to see them – in the communities they serve.”