Co-op looks to foil fuel-sniffing vandals
Wednesday 22nd September 2010, 2:30PM BST.
PC Karl Addis behind the Communicate shop where teen vandals have been getting into Leale’s Yard. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1030997)
REPORTS of teenagers inhaling lighter fuel, jumping on roofs and vandalising buildings have led the Co-op to tighten security at Leale’s Yard.
The Channel Islands Co-operative Society, which owns the site earmarked for a major retail and housing development, was contacted by police about antisocial behaviour in the car park behind Communicate’s shop on the Bridge.
It has now put in a planning application to erect hoarding in the lower car park.
Community officer PC Karl Addis said: ‘Some of the kids who hang round the Bridge were also down here as it is out of view.
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i think it is about time that the guernsey people took a stanc and that is about time the goverment did desomthing for the people that pay thay bladey wages
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I’m sorry, but if the buildings are planned to be demolished how can this be described as vandalising?
The police should be checking out the foreigners that live along the small road from the Bridge shopping area.
I think the police should really be focussing on the protection of females in the St Peter Port area. I also like how they make the assumption that it is teenagers.
If the police want “teenagers” to avoid the area perhaps more needs to be done for “teenagers” such as the planned cinema, or maybe more areas to hang out. It’s an interesting place, and has a lot of history.
Perhaps they are history students? Photography students? Studying the collapse of Guernsey industry? Because of all the foreigners and banks?
Just an idea.
Gregory Gregson
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The Police wish to discourage these people from breaking the law? Of course they do, that’s what we pay them to do.
I can’t understand why they don’t simply arrest them and charge them with criminal damage. A couple of hundred hours of community service later, cleaning up beaches, cliff paths, and removing graffiti, and the world is a better place. Who knows, they may even get tired of cleaning up their own mess.
We don’t owe them any entertainment, but they do owe us some normal community behaviour.
Jo.
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Gregory:
The report makes no reference to an assumption that the people involved were teenagers. It clearly states that reports led to the tightening of security. In fact, reports is the first word of the article.
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Truth Man, I advise you to read the first sentence.
“REPORTS of teenagers inhaling lighter fuel…”
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Truth Man,
The third word is teenagers.
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“I’m sorry, but if the buildings are planned to be demolished how can this be described as vandalising?”
If I smash up your already derelict greenhouse it’s me damaging your property. It’s criminal damage, that’s the law.
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