St Brelade sets up a Neighbourhood Watch
Thursday 8th April 2010, 2:59PM BST.
Centenier Steve Pallett
ST BRELADE residents are fighting back against crime in the area by launching the Island’s first Neighbourhood Watch group.
‘Report it and reduce it, or leave it and live with it’ is the slogan of the new scheme, which aims to foster community spirit in the Belle Vue area.
The States police, honorary police, the Jersey Homes Trust and Belle Vue residents joined forces to launch the scheme in a bid to reduce crime. The initiative will be run by the residents with a main Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator.
Centenier Steve Pallett and a States police constable will be the main contacts if there are any problems. Mr Pallett said that the idea for the initiative came from the police. He visited Hampshire to see how successful the programme was there.
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Brilliant idea, we’ve had a mini crimewave and the police are completely disinterested. After reading that 3 kids mugged a man of his wages it’s high time that someone took action, shame you can’t hit the little swine when you catch them.
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Jersey is so small should be easy to catch the little bleeders..in fact jersey is that small should,nt be a problem catching any inter bred ferral child,teenager,adult,immigrant from doing any crime!
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Unfortuately, the police and law officers have been so softly, softly on ‘youngsters’ that we have now reached the situation where they consider themselves untouchable.
If you speak to people who have to deal with the young thugs they are surprised at how violent and unpleasant they can be, and they ‘know their rights’.
I wonder how long it will be before a gang of youths kill someone.
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Tarzan & Jane comment 2 – I agree but the police would need to leave the station house and put down the coffee and donuts wouldn’t they.
I totally agree, they must know who they are, as we are an independant juristiction and make our own laws why not make the parents responsible for their children’s beahviour and fine or lock them up. As for the little vermin, 20 lashes should do the trick.
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Police on this island are a joke. I’ve just been stopped by my Centenier with a speed gun. Driving along, clear road, sunny day, no cars in front or behind me – nothing coming the other way. Turn a corner and there is this little man in a yellow jacket in the road pointing his speed camera at me. He waves me to stop and comes around to the drivers side window. What is the speed limit on this road? 40mph – I correctly say. How fast were you driving? 40mph I say. Shows me speed gum which reads 44mph. 1mph more and I would have prosecuted you. Don’t it make you proud to know that we have such a great force on our island really tackling the big issues and making our environment so much safer!!!
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….and a recent road check prosecuted people for leaky oil, broken lights and other imperfections.
Yet more serious crime is being ignored!
I feel these “law enforcers” have no real backbone to deal with REAL crime…..theyb are too sfot these days.
When was the last time the police made a routine visit to any pub in St Helier?
They might actually catch some drunk thug before the commit a serious assault, drug dealer or under age drinker if they did!
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