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The Council’s Community Safety Team is visiting 20 communities across Dumfries and Galloway in the coming weeks to discuss local anti-social behaviour issues in the community.

Following similar events in other communities, the team has heard firsthand where problem areas are. As a result, your Community Safety Officers have then been able to target their foot patrols to help deter and detect anti-social behaviour and fine those offending.

Chair of Communities Committee, Councillor Ian Blake said: “Previous community safety engagement events generated useful information to help the team better target their time and focus on key areas of our region to detect and deter anti-social behaviour, in order to make our residents feel safer. These coming events will give members of the public the opportunity to tell our Community Safety Team about matters and areas of concern in their own area, and how they’d like us to deploy resources to deal with various issues”.

Jackie McCamon, Vice Chair of the committee, added: “We receive a lot of feedback on what is important to the communities across our region. Some of this relates to dog fouling, littering and abandoned vehicles, among other things. Our Community Safety Team needs your input to continue to make a difference in your community so if you can, please visit an event near you and talk to our team”.

Two Community Safety Officers will be present at each event, please look out for them at the Community Safety display trailer. The location, date and time for the next 20 engagement events are as follows:

DATE	LOCATION & TIME	LOCATION & TIME	LOCATION & TIME
Wednesday 13 September	Herries Court Heathhall 1000hrs – 1230hrs	Birkie Knowe Ae 1315hrs – 1415hrs	Main Road Collin 1500hrs – 1600hrs
Tuesday 19 September	High Street Moffat 1000hrs – 1400hrs	Beattock Park Beattock 1430hrs – 1600hrs
Thursday 21 September	Tesco Car Park Cuckoo Bridge, Dumfries 1000hrs – 1300hrs	Lochside Road Lochside. Dumfries 1330hrs – 1430hrs	Lincluden Road Lincluden, Dumfries 1500hrs – 1600hrs
Tuesday 26 September	Tesco Castle Douglas 1000hrs – 1300hrs	Near the School Kirkgunzeon 1330hrs – 1430hrs	Main Street Lochfoot 1500hrs – 1600hrs
Thursday 28 September	Central Avenue Gretna 1000hrs – 1300hrs	Near Victoria Hall Kirkpatrick Fleming 1330hrs – 1430hrs	Near School Eaglesfield 1500hrs – 1600hrs
Tuesday 3 October	Castle Square Stranraer 1000hrs – 1300hrs	Near Hall Leswalt 1330hrs – 1430hrs	Near Hall Kirkcolm 1500hrs – 1600hrs
Thursday 5 October	Main Street Twynholm 1000hrs – 1130hrs	High Street New Galloway 1230hrs – 1400hrs	Main Street Dalry 1430hrs – 1600hrs

The Council’s Community Safety Team consists of 8 patrol staff, based regionwide and focusses on the detection, deterrence and public awareness of anti-social behaviour such as littering, dog fouling and fly tipping. The team also dispose of discarded needles, collect stray dogs, investigate and remove abandoned vehicles and deal with anti-social behaviour and neighbour disputes in communities regionwide.

Patrols are out from 8am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 11.30am to 9pm Friday to Saturday with the aim of deterring antisocial behaviour and detecting and ultimately fining those offending. They also offer a mediation service to assist neighbours to resolve disputes: https://www.dumgal.gov.uk/article/15208/Mediation-service 

You can find out more about the Community Safety Team here: http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/article/15202/Community-Safety-Team