REDUCING ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Posted: 30th Apr 2008
Officers and Community support Officers from Gorleston Safer Neighbourhood Team supported by members of the Special Constabulary and Great Yarmouth Borough Council Neighbourhood Wardens continued their operation on Friday 25th April 2008 to reduce anti social behaviour and criminal damage offences. The team made a further 4 arrests in the neighbourhood, two 17 year old youths caught using disorderly conduct in the Lower Esplanade area spent the night in custody and received an £80 fine. Mitch Massen 24 years was charged with possession of cannabis after being stopped by plain clothes officers and he was bailed to Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court on 13th May 2008 and a further male was issued a street caution for drugs offences. A female who was arrested in last weeks operation and placed on a curfew was also arrested for being out in breach of that curfew. The areas CCTV equipped van was deployed on the night to gain evidence of poor behaviour. Sgt Craske who led the operation commented that a number of other youths were stoppped and spoken to and some alcohol seized as well. Paul McCarthy, the Inspector for the Gorleston Safer Neighbourhood Team stated that the operation will be on going and concentrating on the Bells Marsh Road and Pier Plain areas i the next couple of weeks and urged parents to know where and what their children were doing.






