Gates close in on the Brock Road fly-tippers
Friday 10th February 2012, 2:00PM GMT.
College of Further Education principal Trevor Wakefield at its Brock Road campus, which in recent weeks has experienced fly-tipping. He hopes the gates being locked at night will prevent further items being left by fly-tippers. (Picture by Juliet Pouteaux, 1222507)
GATES at the former Boys’ Grammar School will be locked at night from next week in a bid to stop fly-tipping.
The Brock Road site, which is currently a College of Further Education campus, has been earmarked for a new Guernsey Housing Association development and will be handed over this summer.
But in recent weeks there has been fly-tipping at the school.
College principal Trevor Wakefield said they were keen to stop the problem before it got worse and hoped the locked gates would deter fly-tippers.
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Have the College and the Police no imagination?
Surely with an enclosed site like this, with only one vehicle access and two pedestrian accesses, it would be easy to mount a person to view both and once the fly tippers are inside the grounds, close off their escape.
It would give the police something to do during the boring nightshift instead of all squeezing into the police vans and cars parked somewhere descreet in town waiting for their shifts to end.
Am I behind the times and do they now have heated rest rooms at the Police HQ nowadays with TV to pass their time in?
Silly me, of course I`m joking, we all know the policemen are out in all weathers on foot patrol checking properties and the streets to stop any law breakers, like fly tippers, OOPS!!!
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Peter
Have you any idea when the next fly tipper will strike?
Will it be next Thursday?… next month? … perhaps sometime in April?
As a good citizen perhaps you could volunteer to sit there every night until something happens
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Ray,
The article above says that, “In recent weeks there has been fly tipping” and to me that means that on more than one occasion recently there has been more than one offence committed.
Now, if the police or owners of the site have seen this happening on more than one occasion then surely it isn`t hard to see that there was the opportunity to trap the tippers inside the site and prosecute them. It isn`t rocket science, it just needs someone with a bit of savvy to set up the trap.
Fly tipping invariably takes place during the late night or early morning and you can`t tell me that all of the police are busy during those hours and one or two could be spared to sit inside the building keeping an eye on the gate. In fact they would probably volunteer for the duty.
In answer to your last question? I would do the shifts for the minimum wage.
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