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| SECURITY
GUARDS TO TACKLE VICE |
Police ‘can’t
cope’ with new wave of aggressive prostitutes
A PRIVATE security firm has been hired to spy on pimps, prostitutes
and drug dealers by desperate residents who want to clean up their
area.
People living in Sussex Gardens, Bayswater, believe police are no
longer capable of dealing with the area’s crime and resorted
to desperate measures.
The Quadrangle and Devonport residents’ associations are forking
out thousands of pounds to pay Gallowglass Security – who are
regularly employed by television companies and party organisers
– to patrol the area.
Residents have complained of noise, harassment from pimps, of prostitutes
having sex openly in the street and finding used condoms and needles
in their doorways.
Gallowglass security guards will write down the registrations of
kerb crawlers, eavesdrop on conversations and photograph crimes
from house windows.
Quadrangle Residents’ Association (QRA) chairman Chris Ogilvie-Taylor
said matters had got so severe people would pay for 24-hour security,
steel gates and CCTV.
He added QRA had obtained planning permission for gates costing
thousands of pounds. Security firms have been used before but have
had their powers extended to deal with the increasing disturbances. |
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