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‘We’ll identify you’
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2 months ago
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Cottingham
Last updated 2 months ago.
from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Thursday, August 7
Teachers in Cottingham are helping police identify schoolchildren caught on CCTV vandalising play equipment. Over the past month, more than £2,000 of damage has been caused to the children’s playground at the King George V play area in Northgate.
Five separate incidents involving 13 teenagers, some wearing Cottingham High School uniforms, have been captured on CCTV.
Police have already identified three of these youths with the help of teachers and they have all been given a police reprimand and will now have a police record.
Officers are now working to identify the other children.
PC Steve Morley said: “It would appear most of the damage is being caused by Cottingham children who have never been in trouble with the police before.
“This criminal activity must stop.
“It is not only dangerous to children using the play area who may injure themselves on the damaged surface, it is ultimately costing the taxpayer money to repair the damage.
“Any child over the age of 10 who is identified as being responsible for this damage will be dealt with by the police and may end up with a police record.
“The play area is covered by CCTV cameras and therefore any act of damage will be recorded and used by the police as evidence.”
Police officers are now patrolling the playing fields daily to check for damage.
PC Morley said: “Any damage that is being caused now, no matter how minor, will be investigated.
“Although the two cameras are the council’s, we have access to the footage, so if we find any new damage we are checking the CCTV footage straight away.
“It is mindless damage and as a result the council has an expense that these youths don’t consider.”
Humberside Police www.humberside.pnn.police.uk
East Riding Council www.eastriding.gov.uk
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Ron Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
The police should do something about the youths who ride around the Somerfield Car Park on their bmx bikes damaging the benches and cars.And these kid are should I say "well to do".
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Red-Dragon Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Agreed, Ron… and they do seem quite "well to do" kids.
Other things that need to be looked at are:
1. The kids down the streets off New Village Road that have no respect for people’s cars and scrape their bikes along them and dent them and don’t even say sorry, as well as diving in front of moving cars because they have no road sense whatsoever.
2. And the kids leaving Army Cadets in evenings that cycle in front of cars, and ride all across the road, and offer nothing but verbal abuse to drivers…. now THEY deserve a beasting!
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Ron Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
And the kids leaving Army Cadets.To have that sorted out give the Cadets headquarters at Driffield a ring. But dont forget these kids are the same ones who will be selling poppies later on this year.
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