Community safety department, oveston council (paper six related questions)

Questions 1

High-resolution Cameras will be installed in Oveston district in a bid to reduce crime and boost community safety.

Gradham, the latest town in the area to benefit from the CCTV system, is set to install ten cameras to clamp down the increasing level of drug dealing, violence and rowdyism.

Andrew Slator, chairman of Gradham Chamber of Trade, said: “We have been plagued by young hoodies and gangs of shoplifters and we hope the cameras will help deter and detect the culprits.”

Four of the cameras attached to the automatic number plate recognition are the first in the district to pick up night-times activities clearly, even if a car is travelling fast.

During the day, the new system can alert control room staff to shoplifters or anti-social behaviour, triggering an immediate response from the Neighbourhood Policing Team or Neighbourhood Patrollers.

The cameras will also help track down criminals, picking up females who are walking alone on the street and ensure their safety.

In addition, CCTV enables operators to spot accidents and arrange for the necessary action for emergencies, for example, people have been taken ill and collapsed.

Chief Superintendent Francis Collison, Divisonal Commander, Oveston Police, said: “We expect the rate of arrest in Gradham town centre to go up as a result of the new cameras – so troublemakers, drug dealers and criminals should be warned.”

Neal Simmonds, Oveson Council's CCTV controllers, said: “The CCTV system will only be used to enhance community safety, reduce crime and the fear of crime, and deter anti-social behaviour.

CCTV was launched in Oveston town centre in 1998 and funded by a Home Office grant and donations from businesses.

Initially there were 33 high-resolution cameras sending real-time images back to the control room in Trinity Hourse, Market Square, Oveston.

The scheme was owned and run by the Oveston Council with other partners.

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Questions 2:

Six cars broken into in the Oakwood area of Oveston on Tuesday around 2am and 3am.

Four vehicles were parked in Ramblers' Grove, other two around the corner in Ash Crescent. Two Satellite navigation systems and two CD players were stolen.

Inspector Adrian Woodwarde said: “Thieves are particularly on the lookout for satellite navigation systems because there is a market for them.”

Witnesses or anyone with information should contact us on Oveston 323232.

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Question 3

A fire crew was called to a residential property's rear garden in Woodcote Drive, Oveston, at 4.45pm yesterday.

The incident is being classed as arson and investigated by police.

Witness please contact on Oveston 323232.

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Question 4

(A).

The leader of the residents association:

1. How does it affect the cyclists and motorists?
2. What is the council’s reaction towards these potholes?
3. What does the association try to do now in order to help residents?
4. Who are the people mostly affected by these potholes?
5. How many potholes are there on the roads?
6. How are these potholes formed?
7. Who is responsible for repairing these potholes? When does the company/organisation start to take action?
8. Why have not the company/organisation started to take action even after the residents’ association’s complaining?

The residents

1. How do you think these potholes affect you?
2. What do you expect the council’s reaction towards these portholes?
3. Do you think the residents’ association’s protest helps the situation?
4. What do you think people like you, who suffered from these potholes, should do towards these potholes?
5. Have you ever worried about these portholes?
6. How are these potholes formed?

The councillor who is responsible for planning, roads safety:

1. What is the council’s plan to solve the problem?
2. What is the council’s reaction towards residents’ association’s protest?
3. What have the council been doing so far regarding the issue?
4. Why are there so many potholes on the roads? How have they been formed?
5. Who is responsible for repairing these potholes? When does the company/organisation start to take action?
6. Why have not the company/organisation started to take action even after the residents’ association’s complaining?

(B)

Online editorial:

1. Regularly updated follow-up information and try to have a comprehensive summary of the story.

2. Inserting the web links to guide the readers accessing more background information about the residents’ association and its previous protest, the council, the Highway Agency.

3. Providing comment session for readers to leave their comments and thoughts.

4. Starting a campaign to support the residents’ association, and call for council’s reaction to solve the potholes issue.

5. Starting a page on Facebook, Twitter and other social net-working website and build up a forum for people who are concerned about to discuss the issue.

Video:

1. Video interviews with the key interviewees: leader of the residents’ association, the councillor who is responsible for planning and road safety.
2. Video people from the residents’ association who measure the depth of the potholes.
3. Video residents who give comment on the potholes and road safety.
4. Video the residents’ association’s letter sent to the council.
5. Mobile phone video from the residents.

Other digital:

1. Use text message to guide reader to search more information from the website.
2. Invite reader to send in text messages about their views and publish them on the website.
3. Invite someone from the residents’ association to write a blog about what they have been trying to do.
4. Invite a resident who suffered from the pothole to write a blog.
5. Send an e-mail to alert the residents and tell them more story information available on the website.