[katex]

Mobile phone vouchers ?? What happened to the good old book tokens? Probably spend the 'phone time telling all their other mates what they did.

The use of the word 'mate' is peculiar .. suspect that this will not be the case .. I don't think any law-abiding youngster will be associating with vandalising, graffiti merchants in the first place.

They state hope will work as a deterrent, well, yes, might do this, however, if the perpetrator spots anybody watching them, they will just make sure nobody is around or they will be 'mating out' with kids of similar leanings.

Don't think many of these crimes are pre-planned anyway, just stupid, thoughtless actions that are done on the spur of the moment ... for what ? well, the mind boggles.

Could work occasionally, if one friend sees another about to do something like this and, out of caring for this friend, states that they will report them if they carry on .. so may do some good somewhere down the line. Will be interesting to see the first report.