Caerphilly County Borough Council’s team of 11 community safety wardens made a total of almost 6,000 visits last year to ‘hot spots’ of antisocial behaviour.
The council has said the sight wardens will become more common as it cracks down on unruly behaviour.
Throughout the year 2009/10, the team of community safety wardens:
- Made a total of 5,748 targeted visits to know ‘hotspot’ locations.
- Made 244 referrals to the DVLA to report non-taxed vehicles.
- Made 496 ‘Items on View’ referrals for vehicles with property left on view.
- Referred 92 individuals onto the ‘four strikes’ anti-social behaviour process.
- Issued a total of 1079 verbal warnings to individuals for low level anti-social behaviour and conduct issues.
- Issued a total of 26 written warnings and nine Fixed Penalty Notices.
- Confiscated 623 items of alcohol, on dealing with 125 incidents of prohibited use of alcohol
Councillor Lyn Ackerman, cabinet member for the environment said: “Our team of community safety wardens make a huge difference to our local area.
“They are consistently at the forefront of helping combat anti-social behaviour and disorder and are an extremely reassuring presence to local residents, particularly our more vulnerable ones. I am full of praise for the excellent work they do.”
The council has also said its CCTV team have also been working hard in the past year in the fight against antisocial behaviour dealing with 4,548 incidents.
Further information on the work of the community safety wardens and CCTV team can be found at www.caerphilly.gov.uk/saferccb