Residents urged to fight anti-social behaviour
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Residents in 130 areas of England hit by anti-social behaviour are being urged to take a stand against the problem.
The government is calling for people to put themselves forward as ‘community champions’ to challenge anti-social behaviour. They will receive training in how to work with neighbours, police and council staff to address the issue.
Leaflets are also being sent to 10 million households in the 130 areas, advising people how they can get help from the police, council or their social landlord if they become the victim of anti-social behaviour.
The initiatives are the second phase of a £10 million information campaign, launched in November, which saw leaflets sent to around 6 million households. They also build on the Home Office’s Justice Seen Justice Done campaign, which saw 4,000 people trained as community crime fighters.
Communities secretary John Denham said: ‘Local communities are at their strongest and most confident when residents help themselves to come together, work to shared goals and are actively involved in helping to solve the problems that affect them.’
Peter Jackson, managing director of the Social Landlords Crime and Nuisance Group, said: ‘Social landlords and their tenants have been in the vanguard of effective action to tackle anti-social behaviour for almost 15 years.
‘Our experience is that the best results are achieved where residents and organisations genuinely work together to challenge the anti-social minority that cause so much misery and damage.’
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You are having a laugh | 10/02/2010 10:14 am
This sounds plausible but is actually a sign of the problem? It is top-down government controlled. So instead of having lots of different innovations some of which may be breakthroughs it has become turned into a solution pushed by the centre. £10 million gets spent on private companies to print and deliver leaflets. As to the community crime fighters...aren't they called the 'Police'? Or am I terribly misguided here?
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karen | 10/02/2010 10:45 am
Community crime fighters = PCSO's... police without police powers.
the invention of PCSOs must have been during a very strokey beard meeting... "You know what we need are more police... but we cant afford them so we'll get people to do police work but they cant deal with crime so they can just be there looking like police... and we'll pay them half as much". Genius.
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Peter | 10/02/2010 11:37 am
You are not misguided aburke, but there is a cunning plan in the offing, the community crime fighters are going to be privatise after they finish with the post office, fire-fighters, NHS, Armed forces, etc., etc., Government is preparing us to take more responsibility for the management of the country!
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