ANTI-social behaviour is to be targeted in the latest campaign of Ann Keen, the MP for Brentford and Isleworth, who will this week start contacting community groups across the constituency offering them support in bids for funding.
The MP has thrown her weight behind a Home Office campaign launched this week called Operation Gate-it', which is operating an anti-social behaviour fund from which communities can apply for funding to tackle anti-social behaviour and environmental crime in alleyways.
Ann Keen MP said: "This new fund will give local communities the opportunity to bid for lighting, landscaping or CCTV funding as well as alley gates. £2.3million funding will be available for the two years of the project.
"This money can be used to close eyesore alleys, pay for lighting, CCTV and landscaping to improve an area and increase security.
"Litter, graffiti and abandoned cars can have a huge impact on people's fear of crime and destroys community pride. Yobs who race down alleys on motorbikes or hang about in rowdy threatening groups can cause real problems for communities.
"By putting a gate at the end of an alley we can simply and quickly stop many of the problems and by improving the area through landscaping a sense of community can be fostered.
"Tackling low-level anti-social behaviour which has a real impact on people's quality of life is vital if residents are to have the confidence to stand-up to the minority who are ruining the lives of the law-abiding majority.
"The Government is determined to tackle anti-social behaviour and we have brought in tough new laws backed by an action plan and funding to support communities and frontline staff to deal with yob behaviour wherever it occurs."
l ILL behaved and drunk, Manjit Singh Khalon, 50, abused a bus driver shouting "You Somali Muslim" and pushed a woman and her child when he got on a bus.
He admitted threatening and abusive language and behaviour on a bus between Hounslow and Brentford at Feltham Court this week. He was given a conditional discharge for 12 months with £40 costs.
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