Myself and a lot of people on my street were very angry this weekend after reading both the Telegraph & Observer, about the Union Road dispersal order has been hailed a success!!
Dispersal order working well in Oswaldtwistle (From Lancashire Telegraph)
Hmmmm?? Me thinks not. Do they actually think that these kids when moved on from Union Road go home, get into their PJ's and sit down in front of Corrie?? No they do not! They move off Union Road and down our street. One night last weekend I was coming down the street on my way home from work at around 11pm there was a group of about 25 of them walking down the street all armed with massive sticks, planks of wood and one of them even had a hammer. Needless to say I felt very intimidated, luckily someone who lives on the street was stood outside their house, so I went and stood with them until they had moved. This person was stood at the door as he had rung the police. I then went home and went up to bed at about 11.30pm. I could hear a lot of shouting and screaming and when I looked out of the window and they were stood at the end of the street shouting at someone (although I couldn't tell who this was at the time, I found out later it was several people who lived on the street who were telling them to move on as suprise. suprise the police hadn't turned up!!)
I'm sorry but it may be a success on Union Road but not down here. This sort of order will never work! Because they will just move on somewhere else to an area where other people live, then they will complain.
In my opinon the only way to deal with it is to set a curfew. When I went to Cornwall they were half way through a curfew trail in Redruth and that seemed to be working very well.