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Residents in St Helens, Merseyside, can feel safer in their neighbourhoods thanks to a new initiative by Riverside Housing to photograph incidents of anti-social behaviour.
We purchased digital cameras for Merseyside Police Community Support Officers in the Parr area to capture acts, or evidence of, anti-social behaviour such as graffiti, criminal damage and fly tipping.
This is one of many preventative measures we have introduced to improve the quality of life for residents in the St Helens area. It follows our introduction last year of bikes and ‘head cameras’ for police to record video footage of anti-social behaviour across the town.
Tanya Marsh, Neighbourhood Housing Officer for Riverside Housing, said: “Many of our tenants worry about anti-social behaviour and the vulnerable often feel quite threatened. We are really keen to use preventative measures to tackle these concerns to make our neighbourhoods safer, greener and cleaner places to live. This is yet another way to get the message across to offenders that we will not tolerate anti-social behaviour and if people do misbehave they will be caught on camera.”
The photographs can be used as evidence in court, shown to parents or guardians of offenders to deter further acts of anti-social behaviour, or can be used to alert neighbourhood teams to recent incidents.
For more information contact Roisin Rowley-Smith, Communications Officer at The Riverside Group, on 0151 2956180.
