9. Letter to the Commissioner from
Mr Jim Fitzpatrick MP, 12 November 2009
Thank you for your letter of 4 November. Further
to your correspondence, please find my responses to the questions
you raised.
The 27 cases we sent you were representative of the
hundreds (if not thousands) of anti-social behaviour (ASB) issues
I have dealt with over the years, and were supposed to reflect
that timeframe.
By way of example of, and reinforcement of, the time
period, I am enclosing a canvass return (which I ask you to treat
with the utmost confidentiality) from [...].[60]
My team and I knocked on every one of those doors over a number
of years, including seven of them in 2009. You will see they are
not all my supporters, but reflect a spread of political opinion,
and "undecideds".
Virtually without exception, every resident raised
ASB as an issue of the greatest concern and requested my support
for their attempts to get their estate gated. They are plagued
by yobs coming into their quiet residential cul-de-sac to peddle/use
drugs, play loud music, and damage the cars of residents who ask
them to move.
I have lobbied the council and the police for my
constituents, and they are further examples of those to whom I
would have written.
I noticed we sent you one name from [...] as an example.
The whole [street] wants CCTV because of problems, and we have
been lobbying for all of them since last year.
I have also enclosed canvass sheets for several streets,
indicating our regular activity over recent years. [61]
Among them is [...] [who] is a regular correspondent on a range
of issues, including the visibility of the police. These three
letters are from 2007, but he invariably raises the issue when
I see him—which is regularly.
It is, therefore, difficult to be precise about the
proportion of this year's to other years, but my guess is that
more of them than not would be recent, and most would be live
cases.
Finally, as you allude to in your letter, some cases
may not have outstanding issues, as a number would have been resolved;
but the vast majority are repeating in any case, as yobs are displaced
for a time and do return a lot later to their previous haunts.
Anti-social behaviour is a non-stop issue, hence my enthusiasm
to engage residents with their local police teams.
I hope this clarifies the points you highlighted.
Thank you for your assistance.
12 November 2009
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