New house anti social behaviour

poppysarah

dealsnoway wrote: »

You cant do anything about it.

Its their lifestyle choice.

When their "lifestyle choice" affects other people something can be done about it.

ILW

You cannot do a thing until an actual offence has been committed, this seems a little vague at the moment.

delmar39

ILW wrote: »

You cannot do a thing until an actual offence has been committed, this seems a little vague at the moment.

It's not my job to look at what offences are being committed - that's what we pay police and PCSOs to do. We've been asked to report it everytime given the severe nature of what they get up to, so until the words that you write above come out of a police officers mouth I'll stick to what I'm doing thanks .

Besides all this 15+ youths drinking booze under the age of 18 is illegal....that's one offence I could list others.

Might sound trivial to you, perhaps it would to me if I'd never experienced it.

BitterAndTwisted

I was reading in one of the Sunday colour supps recently about an initiative started by a Chief Constable in his own home village to address anti-social behaviour. This entailed members of the local community getting together and arranging to go walkabout in the evenings getting to know the local youngsters among other things. The situation improved radically and meant that older residents were no longer afraid to leave their homes after dark, people got to know their neighbours so it enhanced community-relations and has now been adopted by other forces around the country. I just wish I could remember the name of the CC.

This sort of initiative was what I was alluding to in my first post on this thread. The one that got shot down in flames. Sometimes it isn't only the job of the Police and the Local Authority to sort these kinds of minor problems out. Communities can and do resolve some of these issues themselves. Power to the people!

Jackinbox99

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

The trouble is, in a smallish village there's often nothing much for the local youths to go to or do,

I grew up on the outskirts of a small village and had nothing to do when I was a kid. I had 50p pocket money a week which wasnt enough to buy booze / fags / drugs if I had even wanted to.

I found my own amusement, like playing football in the park with my mates, playing with toy cars in my bedroom, playing cards, board games, or playing on my atari console. I was really into reading so used to spend hours reading books. I certainly didnt hang about on the streets with my gang. In fact, my parents had a strict 8pm hometime curfew for me, so I wouldnt be able to hang out if i wanted to.

Im not saying I had it hard, but saying that kids having nothing to do is no excuse.

In my current house I did actually have the same problem with kids hanging around. There was an empty shop opposite my house when I moved in. No problems. Then, once the shop re-opened, suddently you`d get gangs of kids (12->16 years old i guess) hanging around outside it, drinking, smoking and vandalising things.

The police put ASBOs on them after about 12 months and they now have vanished - either that or they are in prison.

delmar39

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I was reading in one of the Sunday colour supps recently about an initiative started by a Chief Constable in his own home village to address anti-social behaviour. This entailed members of the local community getting together and arranging to go walkabout in the evenings getting to know the local youngsters among other things. The situation improved radically and meant that older residents were no longer afraid to leave their homes after dark, people got to know their neighbours so it enhanced community-relations and has now been adopted by other forces around the country. I just wish I could remember the name of the CC.

This sort of initiative was what I was alluding to in my first post on this thread. The one that got shot down in flames. Sometimes it isn't only the job of the Police and the Local Authority to sort these kinds of minor problems out. Communities can and do resolve some of these issues themselves. Power to the people!

Sorry I didn't realise this got shot down. I do agree with you. I have thought about things I could do. I am a fully trained dance DJ and have a set of turntables, cd deck etc that could be set up at the youth club and I'd be prepared to run sessions. I've done this in the past for the adult ed. However, this group of youths has been banned from the youth club for disrupting the group. So, it would be a case of targetting this group only. It's a tough one. I think this might work, however, as it's happening outside my property I'm reluctant to become too visible to this particular group. If you understand what I mean. Given the support of others then I'd be more than happy to get involved, otherwise, mini mosquito here we come!

delmar39

Jackinbox99 wrote: »

I grew up on the outskirts of a small village and had nothing to do when I was a kid. I had 50p pocket money a week which wasnt enough to buy booze / fags / drugs if I had even wanted to.

I found my own amusement, like playing football in the park with my mates, playing with toy cars in my bedroom, playing cards, board games, or playing on my atari console. I was really into reading so used to spend hours reading books. I certainly didnt hang about on the streets with my gang. In fact, my parents had a strict 8pm hometime curfew for me, so I wouldnt be able to hang out if i wanted to.

Im not saying I had it hard, but saying that kids having nothing to do is no excuse.

In my current house I did actually have the same problem with kids hanging around. There was an empty shop opposite my house when I moved in. No problems. Then, once the shop re-opened, suddently you`d get gangs of kids (12->16 years old i guess) hanging around outside it, drinking, smoking and vandalising things.

The police put ASBOs on them after about 12 months and they now have vanished - either that or they are in prison.

Thanks for this. An interesting read. A lot more constructive than what others have written on here. I was young once too. I knew a few people who were similar to the kids that are hanging around near us, but luckily I stayed on the fringes and never got involved. Enough to stay in their good books, but not close enough to get involved. I'm not expecting this to be a long term problem, but if it's still the same in 6 months time I'm moving. Simple as. I'll do all that I can before that though.

snowlady07

ILW wrote: »

You cannot do a thing until an actual offence has been committed, this seems a little vague at the moment.

Surely taking drugs and underage drinking constitutes as an offence??

Errata

delmar39 wrote: »

Thanks for this. An interesting read. A lot more constructive than what others have written on here. I was young once too. I knew a few people who were similar to the kids that are hanging around near us, but luckily I stayed on the fringes and never got involved. Enough to stay in their good books, but not close enough to get involved. I'm not expecting this to be a long term problem, but if it's still the same in 6 months time I'm moving. Simple as. I'll do all that I can before that though.

Why not have an informal chat with one of your Parish Councillors. Selling up seems a bit drastic.

delmar39

snowlady07 wrote: »

Surely taking drugs and underage drinking constitutes as an offence??

Thanks for your support. I was beginning to think I was going mad!