Dawlish News

A big thank you to everyone who attended the meeting on Wednesday.

I will definately be informing the authorities about any Anti Social  Behaviour in the town. As the representatives said they need more evidence. 

For myself I felt the meeting was extremely useful and I hope this becomes the way forward and that we all continue to talk to each other.

What is anti social behaviour?

I expect different people have different ideas about what is and what isn't anti social behaviour.

I  totally agree, but if other people's behaviours are having an adverse affect on you, your family or your friend's life,home or business than that's a good indication. If in doubt, I'm sure the local community police team in Dawlish will be happy to help answer any questions.

noise levels ie Customers leaving licences premises/food outlets , amplified music, car/motor bike engine revving

dumping bags of rubbish in street when a collection is not due/fly tipping 

animal nuisance, including dog fouling

vandalism, property damage and graffiti.

Perhaps I'm old fashioned but I consider quite a lot of those examples to be crime, which should be dealt with as such.

anti-social behaviour to me is belching at the dining table and breaking wind in public!

Calling crime anti-social behaviour trivialises it and the impact of it.

Remember when we had Police on the beat that used to deal with anti-social behavior as and when it happened. Today they just want to drive around in fast cars playing at Starsky and Hutch.

Priorities all wrong somewhere. For the price of one of their fancy BMWs they could employ 2 or 3 beat bobbies. Not to mention the parafin parrot and what that costs to operate.