Conservative MPs in Barnet have said any plan to merge borough commanders with Harrow would be “unacceptable”.

A plan to create one borough commander for Harrow and Barnet, seen by the Times Series, is being considered by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) as the Metropolitan Police seeks to fill a £233milllion funding gap by 2015.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson denied last week that he knew of the proposal, despite being the head of MOPAC, and pledged to retain a separate commander for each borough.

In a statement, all three Conservative MPs in Barnet, Theresa Villiers, Mike Freer and Matthew Offord, said they had been told of the plan by their borough commander, Chief Superintendent Adrian Usher.

They said: “We are deeply concerned at the prospect that Barnet might no longer have its own borough police commander.

“Merging our local police command structures with another borough could see Barnet lose out on police numbers and resources. This would be unacceptable to our constituents.

“The prospect of a linkage with a neighbouring borough like Harrow would be bad enough.

“It would be even more unacceptable to merge us with an inner London area like Islington. In the suburbs we always have to lobby hard for our fair share of police, and losing our locally run police service would make that even more difficult.”

The Times Series understands that the current borough commanders for both Barnet and Harrow have been briefed in detail about the plan, which has also been circulated to local authorities.

London Assembly Member for Brent and Harrow, Navin Shah, and his Barnet and Camden colleague Andrew Dismore, have written to the Mayor to state their opposition to the plan, which apparently suggests cutting the number of borough commanders London-wide from 32 to 25.

The Met has already planned £537million of cuts to its budget as it tries to reduce the biggest deficit of any force in the country, which includes the planned sell-off of Wealdstone Police Station in High Street by April next year.