14 mechanical defects were discovered of which ten received prohibition notices. Discovered and dealt with 272 driver's hours offences where one prohibition was enforced. Penalties to the value of £2,930 were issued.
At 8.55pm on Saturday, July 3, four suspects approached the 16-year-old male victim and demanded his possessions. They threatened him before making off towards the railway station with his I-pod, worth an estimated £100.
Many of the complaints in Thurrock revolved around clamping operated by South Essex Clamping Limited who operated from North Road, South Ockendon. The company was struck off companies house in June 2010.
Grays Magistrates Court heard that on the 28th July, the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jogging in the playing fields formerly occupied by the Gateway Academy on St Chads Road when he was confronted by a number of youths. The teen contacted a number of his friends, who arrived shortly after.
THE YOUNG Offenders Service are offering to clean your street for free. Over the last few years, the community payback team have successfully cleaned up a number of streets and buildings throughout the borough.
Leonard Dye, 85, St Mary's Road, Greentithe, Kent was charged with taking an indecent photograph of a child and indecently touching a girl. Both alleged offences are said to have taken place within the Apple Store at Lakeside Shopping Centre.
The operation has already seen one arrest since it started on Monday, August 2. An 18–year-old man from Basildon was arrested for assault on police after police responded to a report of anti-social behaviour. He was taken in police custody and was given a police caution.
When you see Operation BrightShadow down one street, then a PCSO riding their bike down another. When you see a pub taken to Grays Magistrates court for using illegal decoders on their televisions and then the work of the Interceptors on the A13, you appreciate that there is a lot of policing going on in Thurrock.
"We balanced the right of the criminal not to be followed by police with the right of the public not to be a victim of crime, and I consider the balance to come down firmly in favour of the law-abiding public.”
Thurrock Council’s Community Protection Team, responsible for dealing with incidents of Anti-social Behaviour, will be joined by Trading Standards experts and representatives from Oasis drugs and alcohol advice centre. There will also be members of the voluntary community and Police Community Support Officers
Council officers told the court that the mother had failed to attend a whole host of meetings for a variety of reasons. They also informed the court that educational strategies to help the child could not be started as the mother would not return calls or letters.
Grays Magistrates Court heard that Media Protection Prosecution Services attended at the pub on Sunday December 13th and found that the pub was showing the Barclays Premier League clash between Arsenal and Liverpool using an illegal Albanian decoder card.
