Graffiti dismays police team
GUERNSEY POLICE’S neighbourhood policing team will be visiting schools in an attempt to raise awareness and gather information on a spate of graffiti incidents.
Obscenities and anti-establishment epithets have been daubed in several locations around the island, to the dismay of Inspector Andy Whitton.
‘Graffiti is a criminal offence, and it’s disappointing to see it appearing on public and private property in Guernsey,’ he said.
‘Our neighbourhood policing team has been working hard to try to identify those responsible and to minimise the impact on the wider community.’
St Peter Port’s senior constable, Dennis Le Moignan, said the rash of graffiti incidents were ‘shameful to say the least’.
‘On our own property we’ve had to repaint a couple of times – you’ve got to clean as much of the graffiti off first so it doesn’t show through – and it’s all time spent and time is money, and then there’s the cost of paint, so yes it does cost money to put it right,’ he added.
The toilets at Cambridge Park have been targeted twice in the past and as such have had to be repainted at the parish’s expense.
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