Home Department written question – answered at on 9 January 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to tackle (i) antisocial behaviour and (ii) antisocial behaviour outside night clubs and public houses in Southend-on Sea; and if he will make a statement.
Southend on Sea is an Antisocial Behaviour Unit Action area.
The Home Office have allocated Southend on Sea £50,000 in 2005–06 to tackle anti social behaviour. £25,000 of this has been allocated to tackle the most antisocial families in the town. The remaining £25,000 is being used to fund a number of initiatives including:
extension of the Mediation Service across the borough; witness support; covert CCTV deployment;
ASB Initiatives Fund to enable small initiatives to be carried out throughout the Borough; roadrunner scheme—a course aimed at good driving behaviour for 16 and 17-year-olds.
Southend on Sea are undertaking a number initiatives to combat alcohol related disorder outside pubs and clubs, on the sea front and in the town centre. These focus both on prevention and enforcement and include the following:
S.O.S Bus;
The Street Pastors;
No alcohol zones. Three designated areas in Southend where no alcohol can be consumed on the street;
Club Watch—a meeting of the licensee's and police;
Door staff vetting/training;
Drug safes supplied to nightclubs in relation to substances or other articles seized. These can only be opened by police.
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