South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon has written to Norfolk police and South Norfolk Council bosses, asking them to hold more ‘face the public’ events to listen to residents’ concerns and report progress in tackling anti-social behaviour. Mr Bacon, a member of the Commons public accounts committee, was speaking as the National Audit Office (NAO) published its report on tackling anti-social behaviour.
The majority of participants in the NAO’s study said that they were completely unaware of their local area’s strategy for tackling anti-social behaviour and did not feel they had been given the opportunity to influence it. The NAO report recommends that local crime reduction partnerships should communicate more effectively with local communities through ‘face the public’ sessions.
Mr Bacon said today: “Local residents cannot support measures to tackle anti-social behaviour if they don’t know what they are. This is why I would like to see regular meetings between police, district councils and local communities, similar to those recently held in Diss”.
“Such meetings let the public share their concerns and also give police a chance to update residents on local initiatives. Such meetings should also be used to listen to the law-abiding majority of young people who are fed up with being tarred with the same brush as the thugs who are making some residents’ lives a misery”.
“Diss has shown the way and I have asked
Norfolk police and South Norfolk Council to consider holding more
meetings in the future”.
7 December 2006
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