[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Neil

I hope you contact the Police each and every time you see them. The Police are of the opinion that the crime rate is dropping. I don not think it is. I think that people do not report crime therefore it does not become a statistic.


If you see it report it. When you do ask for the incident number and to be contacted by the relevant Police beat manager for that area so you can find out the outcome of your report.

One last point, and this is not aimed at anyone in particular. If you can't be bothered reporting it then please don't moan about it, you had your chance to do something about it and could not be bothered.

I don't think the police would be particularly interested in youths just 'hanging about' in the park....but if I saw anything related to drug use or things that were criminal then I would certainly report it.....but I don't think the police can do much about teens looking intimidating....and perhaps they are not intimidating...it just feels that way to me....and I stay away if they are congregated there.