Police are to set up a dossier on trouble-making youngsters in a bid to crack down on vandalism and petty crime in two south Essex towns.

And the scheme - the first in the county - would see senior officers visiting the youngsters' parents and teachers alerting them to the child's behaviour.

The Youth Nuisance Register, the brainchild of Billericay police community liaison officer PC Julie Dawes, is being touted as a positive way to let parents and schools know what misbehaving children are getting up to.

The register, a pilot scheme which will be used in both Billericay and Wickford, will see police contact parents whenever children are acting in an antisocial manner.

Published Tuesday, July 1, 2003

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