Mums praised for drop in yob crime
TWO mums have been credited for a drop in town centre anti-social behaviour.
The number of recorded incidents in Corby between March 2007 and January this year has fallen by eight per cent compared with last year's figures.
Officers of the area's safer community team have praised youth workers Ellen Hughes and Karen Dawson for helping to reduce trouble.
The pair, both aged 34, go out on patrols on Wednesday and Friday evenings and speak to youngsters on the street.
The youth workers have plenty of experience in looking after children – Mrs Dawson has three children, while Mrs Hughes has four.
Both live in Cecil Drive, on the Exeter estate.
Mrs Dawson said: "I think the work has contributed to the fall in anti-social behaviour.
"We find young people know what they want and Ellen and I can help with that in doing all we possibly can to help.
"If they need anything they can come to us."
Sgt Julie Mead said: "The statistics show a drop in anti-social behaviour.
"They keep a record of everybody they speak to.
"It's about interaction with young people."
Police logged 204 fewer incidents of anti-social behaviour for the March to January period than for the same eight months in 2006/7.
Groundwork North Northamptonshire and Land Securities put forward 10,000 last year to fund the workers, who patrol the Exeter estate, Corby town centre and West Glebe Park.
Due to requests from youngsters they have met, there is now a football tournament and also a music project in the pipeline.
Ann Marie Lawson, youth development worker for Groundwork North Northamptonshire, said: "It's based around consulting with young people about what they want.
"We're making sure that it is done on young people's terms.
"The majority of their work is at West Glebe Park.
"People from different areas of the town congregate at the park."
The nuisance hotspot will be the first to benefit from one of five talking CCTV cameras due to be installed within the next few weeks.
Email to a friend
Print this page- BREAKING NEWS: Man dies following motorway smash on Northamptonshire border
- BREAKING NEWS: Police inundated with hundreds of complaints over snowball fights
- Huge cigarette haul by masked burglars in armed raids at Northampton stores
- BREAKING NEWS: Police name man killed in crash on motorway in Northamptonshire
- Student flats planned for Northampton town centre revealed
- BREAKING NEWS: Fishmarket art gallery offered new home
- Student flats planned for Northampton town centre revealed
- New manager of Northampton’s Grosvenor Centre says ‘This is the beginning of a new era’
- Neighbours raise concern about bid to build new house three inches from their home
- Four-storey replacement for Fishmarket gallery should open in September
- Exclusive: Saints voluntarily move key Heineken Cup match to Milton Keynes
- Sooty may be left with bullet in neck following senseless attack
- Ashton determined to end Saints career on a high
- Sons honoured for care of their father
- West Northamptonshire Development Corporation in bid to purchase site of former power station
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Northampton
Wednesday 08 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: -3 C to 0 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: East
Tomorrow
Cloudy
Temperature: -0 C to 2 C
Wind Speed: 6 mph
Wind direction: South west
