Carl
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Many towns throughout the country use a banning scheme for those who commit offences, such as shop lifting, anti social and drunken disorder, why can’t Wrexham have such a scheme banning those who commit an offence with in the town centre being banned from entering for 3/6 months maybe more, if they want to upset the peace of the town then they should be inconvenienced and face tougher penalties if they break the ban, such as an asbo but like the 48 hour tickets handed out on Saturday night, make it longer so they can’t commit further offences.
Was walking past on Market Street the other day and thought something looked weird about the sign above me, and there was an engineer playing with it, I stuck up a conversation with him as he came off his mobile, apparently alot of corners have been cut already and that the system is not as good as it should be, he admitted yes they have teething issues with most installations and that they can usually fix them, but unfortunately our system here in Wrexham will be running up a lengthy maintenance contract fee, anyone surprised?
A tweet from Mark Williams @NWPWrexhamTown,
Spike in shoplifting in Wrexham over the weekend. Increased police presence this week to deter and detect.
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Has made me wonder when I read it, why is the police’s response to put more CSO’s in the town?Yes they are very good at what they do, but they should have undercover officers on our streets, I was observing a shoplifter on Saturday and followed her all the way through town on her little spree and I did not see one uniform, I had to help the final store manager that she stole from confront her and she got away from us, but we got the stock.
It wasn’t until I was walking back to our shop that I saw a CSO and informed him of the incident and he then went to the store.
Wrexham’s layout and stores are too easy for shoplifters, we need support and to work together to get rid of these low lifes, we also need Police, there was nobody to assist anyone in the town center on Saturday, and when I say assist, I mean on the streets awaiting trouble, there was days when the town was flooded with CSO’s, standing at points and then moving around to others, where are they all?
This is a prime example of why the Oyster Card, ( used throughout London ) should be implemented country wide, for those who do not know, you have a plastic card with a coil of wire and chip in it that stores your unique information in, you top up how ever much you want on it and you simply swipe in at the station you start at and swipe out as you exit when you arrive at your location.
I have used this for years and love it, you do not have to pay the conductors and revenue protection officers that very rarely show their faces check your card from where you joined the service, if the conductor is bored he will check your card but very very rare.
We need this system throughout the country and the same will happen here as it does in London, journeys are quicker and fewer fare dodgers.
That is the response we get from the police, everything has to be called into the control room via 101, we are not allowed a crime link radio at the shop because a fruit and veg shop is not the normal place to have one, we have to rely on ringing anything in to the police.
So when we call we get a snotty response from the operator because they ask how much the item was worth, for example last year I called in to report a £5 theft, and was told that there were no officers to deal with it and that one would call round, yes we got an appointment and an officer came, he looked at our CCTV, (of which was installed due to non shoplifting reasons) said oh yes i know them, but we can’t go and lock her up because it wouldn’t be in the public’s interest.
Every event that happens at our shop is not in the public’s interest, we have had theft, shoplifting, trespassing, criminal damage and forced entry, but because we aren’t over a threshold, our events are not worth the work, maybe if they were caught, given an exclusion order for repeated offending they wouldn’t be able to enter the town to take anymore money away from the business.
Here is a few of our characters that we have been told about, not to mention those who have lifted and got away without us knowing.
