Posted on 09/06/2008 6:08:25 AM PDT by 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.
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Hitler’s Children
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The new “BrownShirts” ???
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George Orwell, 1984
Once children have unlimited access, to plastic bags, then the evil will end.
Pol Pot is my hero.
Fly-tipping is a British term for illegally dumping waste somewhere other than an authorized landfill.
Close the lid. The UK is dead.
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.
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.
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?
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/
“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....
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.
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