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Helen Draycott Advertiser 3 Feb 11
A pioneering new initiative aimed at making Walsall town centre a safer place for people going out at night is set to be launched.
Street pastors – volunteers recruited through churches – will be pounding the pavements from the end of March in a bid to reduce Walsall borough’s already falling anti-social behaviour levels even further…
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Advertiser 25 Nov 10
Police have released this CCTV image of a man they are looking to trace in connection with an incident at Walsall railway station in which threats to throw passengers onto the tracks were made.
British Transport Police (BTP) are appealing for information to help identify the man who they believe can assist them with their investigation into the incident which took place on Wednesday, 3 November…
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CommonPeople 23 Oct 10
Biggest fall Streetly/Pheasey/Aldridge/Walsall Wood
Reported anti-social behaviour in Pelsall and local neighbourhoods has fallen by 22 per cent – above the borough average of 20 per cent, new figures have revealed.
Figures released by Safer Walsall Partnership show that across the Walsall borough, the numbers of reported ASBs fell from 17,503 between October 2008 and September 2009 to 14,069 between October 2009 and September 2010.
The statistics also show ASB has fallen across all of the neighbourhood management areas with drops of more than 30 per cent in some…
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Justine Halifax B'ham Mail 13 Oct 10
Walsall is a diverse and multi-cultural borough home to around 254,000 people, but it’s just one of a number of hotspots in the West Midlands that’s being plagued by anti-social behaviour.
Now, in a bid to stop people suffering in silence for fear of reprisals, it has just become one of 80 areas in the UK to be awarded Home Office funding to recruit a victims champion.
Karen Bateman has been charged with the job of encouraging more people to pursue complaints so robust action can be taken to curb the anti-social antics of gangs making some residents’ lives a misery…
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B'ham Mail 13 Oct 10
A Walsall man who verbally abused a train manager, just hours after being released from prison, has been jailed for 18 weeks, following an investigation by British Transport Police.
Mark Anthony Williams, aged 42, pleaded guilty at Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court to causing the train manager harassment, alarm or distress during a journey between Liverpool and Wolverhampton…
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Cllr Ian Shires 12 Oct 10
Last week it was “The Square” Lichfield Road, New Invention which suffered anti social behaviour. Last night it was Castle Drive shops, Short Heath which suffered the same fate. Upwards of 40 – 50 young people gathered in the area posing a threat to residents and motorists a like. Just what is it which sparks these incidents?
Liberal Democrat councillor Doreen Shires and myself have spent time with the Police in the area. We’ve talked with the kids out on the streets, and the response we got was that there was “nothing to do”…
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The Wolf 3 Sep 10
A disperal order has helped dramatically reduce anti-social behaviour in Wednesbury.
Officers asked for the powers to break up groups gathering around Linear Park after resident complained about damage to property…
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Express & Star 23 Aug 10
Almost £2 million has been spent repairing damage caused by vandalism at schools across the region in the last three years, new figures show.
Schools in Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Walsall and Staffordshire have been targeted by yobs vandalising buildings by breaking windows and wrecking classrooms…
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Express & Star 9 Aug 10
Eight trees have been hacked down at a Black Country wood, sparking an investigation.
Handsaws have been found lying next to the felled trees at the back of Millfield Avenue and Stoney Lane in Bloxwich, leading to fears that it could be the work of vandals…
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Neil Elkes B'ham Mail 28 Jul 10
More than 70 elderly residents on a sheltered housing estate have been threatened with ASBOs and eviction by a council official.
The old folks living at the Ash Grove Road Scheme, in Great Barr, have all received letters after a row broke out between some of them over late-night parties and noise from a shared common room…