Police chiefs to host web debate asking 'what is anti-social behaviour?' (From Bucks Free Press)
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Police chiefs to host web debate asking 'what is anti-social behaviour?'
3:10pm Wednesday 24th October 2012 in News By Simon Farr
Police chiefs to host web debate on anti-social behaviour
AN internet debate on what constitutes ‘anti-social behaviour’ will be hosted by police chiefs tomorrow evening.
Wycombe Area Commander Superintendant Gilbert Houalla and his deputy, Chief Inspector Colin Seaton, will be answering your questions and reading your views on ASB between 5pm and 7pm on Thursday.
The BFP reported earlier this month how Supt Houalla was becoming “increasingly concerned” by some of the incidents his officers were being asked to attend. He urged people to think before they called police.
Supt Gilbert Houalla, said: “This webchat is an opportunity for the public to speak to us directly about any concerns they might have, and also if they have any questions in relation to how we police the area.
“We would really like to create a discussion and debate around what you believe anti-social behaviour to be.
“My officers regularly attend reports of anti-social behaviour when children are just playing outside. Is this really anti-social behaviour?
“I would like to hear your views. Similarly, I would like to hear from young people and how they feel about this.
“We are committed to improving relations with our community and will be glad to hear directly from the public to find out their views on how we can provide them with the best policing service possible.”
To take part in the debate, simply type a question into the live feed when it is live at 5pm.
Or you can pre-submit a question on Twitter by sending a tweet @TVP_Wycombe or ending your question with the #thinkASB hashtag.
The debate will be held on Thames Valley Police’s channel on Cover It Live! Click here to be taken to the page.
Comments(4)
shaky2
says...
8:41pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Dr James
says...
9:17am Thu 25 Oct 12
Simple answer to the problem of ASB, where there are problems, put a bobby back on the beat....any problems, nick the little bugg&rs, send them all off to do national service, castrate them, hang them, draw and quarter them...bring back the birch
Stalemate
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11:41am Thu 25 Oct 12
What he sees is that perfectly agreeable people, children having a play and adults wanting some peace and quiet, are rubbing each other up the wrong way and that these matters are coming to the attention of the police.
The reason he is stressed about it is that it is not about crime, more about
all of us living and getting along with each other. As an experienced policeman he knows that if we can't live together peaceably then the omens for him and his men are not good.
I would love him to nip this problem in the bud, but I don't think it can be.
Stalemate says...
5:03pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Mr Houlla, the key word in that last sentence was "away": the sound dissipated because it had somewhere to go.
Forty years on, let's look at something far less contentious than a child playing in the street; how about a baby crying indoors at bottle time or a mother sitting on the throne for a quick wee-wee?
With a window open on a warm day, either of those two sounds will be heard by any of the 120 residents who happen to be outside on your average sixty property residential close. If you raise the stakes, and consider two little cherubs playing outside, then anyone inside or outside on the close will hear them, and hear them well.
Children are not louder, adults no less tolerant; the answer is in the concrete, tarmac, brickwork, compacted street layouts and property sizes used in every new housing development over the past forty years.
Mark my words Mr Houlla that your hard working constables, who I am sure have quite enough on their plates already, will be responding to a fairly regular stream of murders in residential streets as this problem gets worse and worse. In time, it will become business as usual for your constables.
Worst of all Mr Houlla, there IS no solution.