UK Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers (report 'enviro-crime')

Daily Telegraph ^ | Sept 6, 2008 | Martin Beckford, Sarah Graham and Betsy Mead

[libertarian27]

The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions.

One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of "environment volunteers" who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or "bin crimes".

The "covert human intelligence sources", as some local authorities describe them, are also being asked to pass on the names of neighbours they believe to be responsible, or take down their number-plates.

Ealing Council in West London said: "There are hundreds of Junior Streetwatchers, aged 8-10 years old, who are trained to identify and report enviro-crime issues such as graffiti and fly-tipping."

Harlow Council in Essex said: "We currently have 25 Street Scene Champions who work with the council. They are all aged between 11 to 14. They are encouraged to report the aftermath of enviro-crimes such as vandalism to bus shelters, graffiti, abandoned vehicles, fly-tipping etc. They do this via telephone or email direct to the council."

Other local authorities recruit adult volunteers through advertisements in local newspapers, with at least 4,841 people already patrolling the streets in their spare time.

[libertarian27]

The Comment string under the article is amazing.

[chickadee]

Hitler’s Children

[libertarian27]

Ping Please.

[xcamel]

The new “BrownShirts” ???

[Nailbiter]

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[Perdogg]

[Loyalist]

With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother -- it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak -- 'child hero' was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.

George Orwell, 1984

[highpockets]

What I say next will be offensive:

Once children have unlimited access, to plastic bags, then the evil will end.

Pol Pot is my hero.

[Perdogg]

Fly-tipping is a British term for illegally dumping waste somewhere other than an authorized landfill.

[IbJensen]

Close the lid. The UK is dead.

[screaminsunshine]

I read the comment sring. I hope America wakkes up to the fack the Obamans are attmpting a communist Federal takeover before it is too late. We can not allow them in the White House. Time to save the Republic.

[screaminsunshine]

Believe it> Obama has a similar plan for all high school grads to do PUBLIC SERVICE for a free college education. Actually it will be indoctrination in to communism. It can and is happening here.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Straight out of the Pol Pot and Adolf Hitler playbook: nark on thy neighbors.

What have they set up, a toll-free number? 0800-RAT-FINK?

[xcamel]

You should me ‘more scared’ in the US — The anti-gunners have enlisted children and their pediatricians as snitches on who has/uses guns in the household.

[libertarian27]

The new “BrownShirts” ???

Yes, wrapped up in a new phrase "Common Purpose"

Their site:

http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home.aspx

Warning about Common Purpose:

http://www.stopcp.com/

[libertarian27]

http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home.aspx

http://www.stopcp.com/

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

“Hitler’s Children”

Give me a break. Comments like that are completely ridiculous. These people aren’t being trained to identify anyone who criticises the ‘glorious leader’ so that they can be bundled away in the middle of the night to be tortured and summararily executed for crimes against the state, they’re being trained to uphold justifiable laws, which are, regardless of any encouragement by the government, the responsibility of every law-abiding citizen IMHO.
If you let your dog crap all over the pavement, or engage in fly tipping, you deserve to get done for it, because you are making your own (or somebody else’s) neighbourhood a more disgusting place to live. I have no sympathy with these people if they are grassed up by other concerned citizens and brought to justice. Maybe a swift kick in the wallet will persuade them that it will be worth the effort to dispose of their waste properly.

Oh and:

“In April, Hull council officials fined a young mother £75 for dropping a piece of sausage roll while trying to feed her four-year-old daughter. Sarah Davies, 20, refused to pay and the matter when to magistrates court where it was dismissed.”

Demonstrates that the claims which ARE OTT or unjustified will be dismissed in a court of law if you are prepared to take the matter to it rather than just sit back and accept the injustice of a caution/small fine, as most people are prepared to do to avoid the hassle....

[Robert A Cook PE]

UK?

Oh, I thought this was Stalin’s UKraine, where the enviro-communists murdered 20 million under the NY Times gleeful encouragement .... While the children reported on their parents.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Save this poster for Barry Hssien's "Volunteer" National Service Corp. This will be a cause of my presidency.