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What is the Community Warden Scheme?
It is an initiative aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour and improving our local communities.

What is a Community Warden?
A community warden is a member of a highly visible patrol in your area to help reduce vandalism, graffiti and anti-social behaviour, and to make it a cleaner, safer place to live.

Why do we need Community Wardens?
Most people want to live in thier own home quietly and peacefully, without fear of  crime,  annoyance or abuse.  A Community Warden's role is to try and ensure that everyone can enjoy the area they live in by:

  • Reducing the frequency of anti-social behaviour such as litter, fly tipping and dog fouling.
  • Reducing the fear of crime
  • Reducing incidents of crime
  • Developing closer links with young people

Where will the Community Wardens patrol?
Three specific areas have been identified within the Stirling Council area: Raploch/Top of the Town, Cultenhove and the Eastern Villages.  Each of these areas is covered by a team of two Community Wardens.  These teams will develop and forge an essential link with the community.

A fourth team is now operational and will be deployed to deal with ASB issues on a flexible, intelligence-led basis.

What will Community Wardens do?
Community Wardens will provide a friendly face to promote the area as a safe, attractive place to visit, shop, work and live.  
They have a wide range of duties which include:

    Environmental Issues

  • Arrange, where appropriate, litter picks and prompt uplift of fly-tipping, needles and dog fouling
  • Report incidents of vandilism and graffiti to the relevant services
  • Be a point of contact for the environmental concerns

    Other Forms of Antisocial Behaviour

  • Provide reassurance to the residents
  • Engage with residents and young people
  • Report incidents of anti-social behaviour or crime to the council service or police, as appropriate

What legal powers do Community Wardens have?
Other than the lawful powers conferred on all citizens to take appropriate actions when they witness a serious offence being committed, the Wardens have no powers to stop, search, arrest or detain anyone or to disperse groups or assemblies.  They can, however ,respond to certain situations by contacting the relevant Emergency Service or Contact Centre if they believe that this has not already been done and to do so would benefit the community.  They are also empowered to issue Fixed Penalty Notices in relation to dog fouling where their previous education and information attempts have been ignored.

In addition, Community Wardens will develop links with local schools, community groups and businesses.

When will they be patrolling the communities?
Wardens will patrol late afternoon and evenings Monday to Saturday.  During the winter, they will patrol between 1.30 and 9pm, and in the summer between 2.30 and 10pm.

For more information contact:

Community Warden Co-Ordinator
Community Services, Room 17
Langgarth, Stirling
FK8 2ET

Tel: 0845 277 7000

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