Pro-active policing has seen arrests, and teens taken home to parents for anti-social behaviour in Livingston town centre
Anti-social behaviour by teens in Livingston 's shopping centres has sparked hundreds of calls to police already this year, councillors have heard.
"Several young people have been either arrested and brought into custody or taken home to their parents and charged, for a variety of disorder/violent offences, particularly by the community policing team." Councillor Maria MacAulay said: " Looking at the stats for Livingston South, is a lot of this made up with what's happening in Livingston centre?. I was at a community council meeting last night and they were saying 'oh it's really bad'. I'm just looking for factual information."
Sgt Brodie added: " At the same time I did see some encouragement when I looked through some of the figures because there's certainly some weeks where Livingston South, in spite of having the town centre, didn't have the highest number of calls that particular week. It certainly looks like Bathgate, which itself has a busy town centre and night time economy, obviously did take a lot of the calls as well.
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