Vignette 1
Responding to reports of ASB in Abanoch We are in the car on patrol, doing a similar route to the usual figure of eight route through the village. The officer gets a radio message in his earpiece saying that there has been a complaint about young people causing a disturbance. A group of 10 or 12 young people aged between 11 and 14 were running up the street and making a lot of noise. A couple of holidaymakers in a rented cottage heard this and went out to confront them e the group then turned on them and started shouting and swearing. The couple are primarily concerned that their car would get scratched. The officer said to me ‘I reassured them that this wouldn't happen and if it did I would bust the kids, because I know who they are and I know their parents e that's the beauty of working in a small village’.