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Anti-yob blitz in Worthing

2:54pm Sunday 21st March 2010 in


A major crackdown on benefit cheats and antisocial behaviour will be launched in Worthing tomorrow.

The move is part of a week of joint action by police and other agencies in the town's Castle ward.

Teams of local volunteers will also help clean up the area including painting run-down garage compounds and removing weeds and litter from the streets.

Offenders involved in community payback schemes will also be working in the area as part of their community service.

One of the biggest complaints received at a Meet The Argus session in Worthing last week was about the state of the town's roads.

The Highways Agency will have workers out filling in the worst of the potholes left by snow and ice over the last few months.

Extra police and community support officers will be on patrol to target antisocial behaviour during the week-long crackdown.

Inspectors from the National Benefit Fraud Department will be hunting people suspected of being involved in making bogus benefits claims.

A TV licensing detector van will also tour the area looking for anyone using television sets without a current licence.

Comments(17)

corruptive says...
3:12pm Sun 21 Mar 10

lol what is this, some sort of south coast "East Germany Day"?!?
Hopefully the hunt for benefit fraudsters will begin with the Member of Parliament for the area, followed by close scrutiny of the local council and their golden handshake fund.

PS TV detector vans don't actually work.

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LimpWristed says...
4:30pm Sun 21 Mar 10

All you need is a bugle and a pack of bloodhounds and you've got a hunt on your hands. Now where did I put that riding crop...

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corruptive says...
4:39pm Sun 21 Mar 10

I dunno where Nigel Freedman cut-and-pasted this press release from anyways, but the thing that makes me laugh is the implication that if these public sector workers actually DO THEIR JOBS for once, it is described as a "crack down" and makes the papers!

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Dicky71 says...
6:59am Mon 22 Mar 10

Is this a new job creation scheme for bureaucrats.

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corruptive says...
9:24am Mon 22 Mar 10

great jobs - they work for a week and then go back to tax-payer funded jollies and sniffing glue

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tilburyre says...
9:57am Mon 22 Mar 10

Neighborhood Watch are involved as well. All the co-coordinators in the area were told about it and asked to find volunteers for the clean-up. why this one ward should have this treatment at the expense of the rest of the town was not explained.

The area concerned is Maybridge Estate and its environs.

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corruptive says...
10:04am Mon 22 Mar 10

And do all members of the Neighbourhood Watch have current valid CRB checks?

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Luke72 says...
10:35am Mon 22 Mar 10

"Teams of local volunteers will also help clean up the area including painting run-down garage compounds and removing weeds and litter from the streets."

Surely this is what residents pay their council tax for? Seems odd to have a special clean up day just to get the area maintained to a minimal standard.

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corruptive says...
10:42am Mon 22 Mar 10

You'd think that, Luke72, but unfortunately there's no money left after the council have spent it on all management consultants who'll have conducted a indepth study of street cleansing methodologies, which included a week-long jolly to Vancouver to all Council staff to witness at first hand some of the innovative street-cleansing technologies applied there.

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Granny says...
2:34pm Mon 22 Mar 10

So there will be a crackdown on anti-social behaviour for a whole week!!! Presumably the yobs can do as they please for the other 51 weeks in the year. Wowee - the potholes are going to be filled in as well - how much more lucky can we get? This really is a cracker of a story.

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yorkie44 says...
5:05pm Mon 22 Mar 10

I though Brighton was bad but this makes me realise how well off we are here.

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icansee says...
5:28pm Mon 22 Mar 10

worthing is how brighton was 20 years ago
there are large areas of poverty and high numbers of unemployed young adults
there is nothing for this generation born into this area
they are not happy

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Big Nasty says...
11:36pm Mon 22 Mar 10

icansee wrote:
worthing is how brighton was 20 years ago
there are large areas of poverty and high numbers of unemployed young adults
there is nothing for this generation born into this area
they are not happy
This is what the people of Worthing (including myself) have been telling the various councils for years!, and yes your right we are not happy we see what can be done in other towns and all we get is excuses why it cant be done here!!!!!!.

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icansee says...
10:23am Tue 23 Mar 10

and dont forget all you public sector professionals taking part, these yobs do not have jobs for life and gold plated pensions
30 years salary and 20 years pension equals £million
large numbers of people in this town have nothing

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corruptive says...
10:52am Tue 23 Mar 10

will this "crackdown" involve local MPs who've been fiddling their overseas jollies?

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icansee says...
7:54pm Tue 23 Mar 10

its a farce!
am a bloodclot lie?

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Big Nasty says...
6:02pm Thu 25 Mar 10

O.K. lets get this straight, all the authority's have for once worked together and been very effective in trying to do something for the residents that live in the area, however I must say that all the hard work in the world is no good if the residents themselves don't put just a little bit of effort in to help..... over 4000 leaflets were delivered to every household in the area asking for people to volunteer and it has been advertised on local radio and in the papers, and I must say that the attitude of some of the residents is disgusting they are happy to moan about the state of the area they live in but when they are offered all the materials free of charge to smarten the place up (with a lot of help from all the agency's and community workers) they can't be bothered it's all very well to blame the council etc but at the end of the day the community must do its bit, where has the community spirit gone!, it must be soul destroying for those people that put in all the effort!, come on you people of goring you have 2 days left to show you care!.

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