Neighbourhood watch types

[thelawnet]

When I've got a bit more £££ I'm going to make sure I don't have any neighbours.

The other day, I was barbecuing at 4:30am, and it's a real pain to have to worry if they are going to wake up and make stupid comments.

 

[Drago]

PACT

Police and Community Together.

Not quite the same thing as NHW, but you do tend to see the same faces with the same agenda at every meeting. I chair them, and have a very unprofessional opinion of some/many of the "sticky-beak" types, so I won't go into too much detail. Suffice it to say, we can separate the wheat from the chaff, and by acts of diplomacy, smoke, and mirrors, we can ensure the true priorities based on calls for service and local knowledge are represented, and at the same time the speeding and dogturd brigade are pacified.

NHW is a mixed bag. Tenants Association meetings are always entertaining, especially in an area where, genuinely, nothing happens. They are often forced to make stuff up in order to have something to be indignant about. I once had a run in with one resident who didn't like the skate park near her house. The area is desperately middle class, with zero deprivation, zero crime, a generally wealthy population, and a bunch of really nice middle class skaterbois, (we're talking 11-14 year olds). The resident kept on making reports of all sorts of shenannigans,underage sex, drug-taking, alcohol use. The local warden kept checking the park for litter, and reported a few sweet wrappers and monster energy cans, but no roaches, no needles, no bottles or dealer bags, and surprisingly few cigarette ends. There was a bit of graffiti, which would appear sporadically. In the end I persuaded the ASB unit to put up a covert camera as I wanted to see just what was going on to make this woman so furious at every meeting. On the second night it caught her setting fire to a waste bin and spraying the word "F*CK" on the end of the half pipe.

In interview she admitted she was considering selling her house, and thought the park was affecting the sale value.

I objected to a skate park being built on my beat on the basis that there was no natural surveillance and it would be prime real estate for crime.

The carncil and residents thought they knew better, the park was built, and on the very first day it was open a lad was robbed of his bike there. I expected to be vindicated, but not that quickly.

 

[dellzeqq]

Ah, welcome to the new world of neighbourhood policing. No longer do we set the policing priorities (in the past these have mainly been burglary/robbery/domestic violence), now the community have these meetings and tell us to focus on the hard hitting issues such as cycling on the pavement instead.

and the election of Police and Crime Commissioners is going to improve this how exactly..............(gets coat)

 

[Arjimlad]

My parents' NHW scheme seem to spend a lot of time on social gatherings round one anothers' houses, and even times when the whole street gets on a coach or a cruise. I wonder who is watching the neighbourhood when they are all round in no 32's back garden, or passing the Dover straits ?!

 

[Melonfish]

its all for the greater good..

 

[Hover Fly]

Perhaps I should just be grateful that my neighbours are curtain-twitchers, rather than drug dealers and joyriders.

I once lived next door to a small scale drug dealer, he was a brilliant bloke as a neighbor, no noise, any troublesome visitors got nipped in the bud, as I overheard him telling his mate once, last thing he needed was the cops or council coming round on minor matters.

 

[Cubist]

I once lived next door to a small scale drug dealer, he was a brilliant bloke as a neighbor, no noise, any troublesome visitors got nipped in the bud, as I overheard him telling his mate once, last thing he needed was the cops or council coming round on minor matters.

We had a similar thing, back in 2004/5 when one estate was so plagued with antisocial behaviour that we considered a curfew and dispersal order. A neighbouring estate was as quiet as the grave, yet we knew that the resident population were almost identical in make up to the other. At one Youth Club a local cop managed to get kids on the subject of hanging round on the street in gangs, and one of the kids innocently said that his brother had threatened to kill him if he and his mates ever got the "Five-O" on his patch.

 

[User6179]

We had a similar thing, back in 2004/5 when one estate was so plagued with antisocial behaviour that we considered a curfew and dispersal order. A neighbouring estate was as quiet as the grave, yet we knew that the resident population were almost identical in make up to the other. At one Youth Club a local cop managed to get kids on the subject of hanging round on the street in gangs, and one of the kids innocently said that his brother had threatened to kill him if he and his mates ever got the "Five-O" on his patch.

Book him Danno, five-o never heard that phrase for years .

 

[CopperCyclist]

I once lived next door to a small scale drug dealer, he was a brilliant bloke as a neighbor, no noise, any troublesome visitors got nipped in the bud, as I overheard him telling his mate once, last thing he needed was the cops or council coming round on minor matters.

A relative of mine buying a house asked me for advice, as she had found the 'perfect' house, but had also discovered a 'criminal' lived next door. I asked what she meant, as I suggested that a drug dealer would be quite unlikely to bring trouble to her doorstep, whereas a family of ASB's should be avoided like the plague. Unfortunately for her it was the latter and she never bought the house.

 

[Arch]

A relative of mine buying a house asked me for advice, as she had found the 'perfect' house, but had also discovered a 'criminal' lived next door. I asked what she meant, as I suggested that a drug dealer would be quite unlikely to bring trouble to her doorstep, whereas a family of ASB's should be avoided like the plague. Unfortunately for her it was the latter and she never bought the house.

I had a drug dealer in the flat next to me and he was fairly quiet, except his clients tended to stand in the street and shout up to get his attention - and if he wasn't in (or not responding) some of them were quite persistent, shouting and ringing his bell (which I can hear as it's mounted on our party wall). The main problem from my point of view though was that once we'd made contact with the police about him, they told us he and his mates had form for nicking bikes. With mine in the lobby, I didn't fancy that.

Fortunately, the landlord got him out. He was the first tenant the landlord hadn't taken on himself, but through an agent, so he wasn't best pleased.

 

[thelawnet]

Well the NHW man emailed me today asking by what mysterious process I was able to identify all these scams, because 'I obviously had some sort of process'.

I told him it was called Google.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well the NHW man emailed me today asking by what mysterious process I was able to identify all these scams, because 'I obviously had some sort of process'.

I told him it was called Google.

You should have said that you have Nigerian relatives.

 

[thelawnet]

Latest on this is I've been invited to the area NhW 'Coordinators Workshop', as a preparatory step to me vetting these reports. The workshop is 2 hours long including such exciting topics as 'Building relationships with the new Police & Crime Commissioner' and 'Building a supportive community for senior citizens using the internet'.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Latest on this is I've been invited to the area NhW 'Coordinators Workshop', as a preparatory step to me vetting these reports. The workshop is 2 hours long including such exciting topics as 'Building relationships with the new Police & Crime Commissioner' and 'Building a supportive community for senior citizens using the internet'.

Post up what happens so we can all have a laugh!

 

[on the road]

Well the NHW man emailed me today asking by what mysterious process I was able to identify all these scams, because 'I obviously had some sort of process'.

I told him it was called Google.

Better still let me google that for you