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Offenders to clean Weymouth streets

9:22am Tuesday 14th February 2012 in Latest

OFFENDERS will 'repay their debt to society' by scrubbing graffiti from the streets of Weymouth.

A team supervised by Dorset Probation will start work as part of the Wipe Out Project this month.

Under the project, people ordered to carry out unpaid work by the courts will remove graffiti in Weymouth’s Park District and town centre.

To report graffiti call 01305 226506. Graffiti can only be removed if the property owner gives permission.

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Wykeite says...
9:47am Tue 14 Feb 12

Only yesterday I was saying to the passenger in my car they should have chain gangs clearing the rubbish away on the roadside after seeing two council workers doing it along the Southill bypass. This is a small step in the right direction; I'll make a start on the to do list.

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MASK & SNORKEL says...
10:11am Tue 14 Feb 12

Good idea....i would get them to help the council staff by picking up litter, sweeping the streets, picking up dog mess...the list is endless. Why do they need to be supervised by Dorset Probation service??? Surely they could be helping others?

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Share Truce says...
10:23am Tue 14 Feb 12

MASK & SNORKEL wrote:
Good idea....i would get them to help the council staff by picking up litter, sweeping the streets, picking up dog mess...the list is endless. Why do they need to be supervised by Dorset Probation service??? Surely they could be helping others?
if they are not supervised they would just go to the pub!!! hardly pillars of the community are the riff raff on probation are they???

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Duckorange says...
10:55am Tue 14 Feb 12

Also, by clearing graffiti in Park District, it's only a short walk home for most of these people ;)

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shy talk says...
10:57am Tue 14 Feb 12

May I suggest that they wear high visibility clothing, say pink would be nice. So the public can see who they are and what they are doing.

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Duckorange says...
11:02am Tue 14 Feb 12

shy talk wrote:
May I suggest that they wear high visibility clothing, say pink would be nice. So the public can see who they are and what they are doing.
I believe they wear hi-vis "Community payback" tabards, which is much the same

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MASK & SNORKEL says...
11:47am Tue 14 Feb 12

Share Truce wrote:
MASK & SNORKEL wrote: Good idea....i would get them to help the council staff by picking up litter, sweeping the streets, picking up dog mess...the list is endless. Why do they need to be supervised by Dorset Probation service??? Surely they could be helping others?
if they are not supervised they would just go to the pub!!! hardly pillars of the community are the riff raff on probation are they???
I meant the council staff could watch them not the Dorset Probation Service!

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shy talk says...
12:25pm Tue 14 Feb 12

OK”community payback”tabard but still in pink. Because from a distance they all look the same if wearing yellow high vis.

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jusphil says...
2:25pm Tue 14 Feb 12

Duckorange wrote:
Also, by clearing graffiti in Park District, it's only a short walk home for most of these people ;)
Park district to Littlemoor is a fair old walk, maybe we should get them a taxi home :)

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niceonecyril says...
3:41pm Tue 14 Feb 12

If they are doing unpaid work that is normally carried out by the council, I look forward to a rebate on my council tax.

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niceonecyril says...
8:03am Wed 15 Feb 12

They are doing unpaid work, and you are paying for it!

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moss says...
11:06am Thu 16 Feb 12

Whilst we all agree there must be some penalty for offenders what about catching the graffiti artists and stopping them becoming offenders themselves? Besides how many paid council workers will this affect by doing the job for them???

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Desk24 says...
11:19am Sat 18 Feb 12

Finding employment and getting off benefits is not that easy. There are few jobs advertised. A robust attitude in engaging the private sector with a burning desire to succeed seems best in putting meaning into individual life.
Keep appointments as fines of £70 upwards are common place for missing an interview.

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JamesYoung says...
10:58pm Sat 18 Feb 12

Getting employment is certainly not easy, neither is getting off benefits. However, if everybody on benefits was expected to do 40 hours a week work in the community (there is plenty of stuff that is neglected) then employers would look more favourably on even the long term unemployed, and the unemployed (and prisoners alike) could derive some pride from their contribution. The current system, that expects people who have worked all their lives to live on £64 a week, which is then regularly unpaid due to silly rules and minor errors on forms or missed appointments, while allowing the long term unemployed to do precisely nothing, is never going to work. As for prisoners wearing tabards, yes, they should, as in the US. But in return, we should also recognise their efforts and support them into employment when their time is done.

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