Sir
The blessed peace we enjoyed in this part of Dundee over Christmas soon evaporated with the onset of the new year.
Mobile parties, which always seem to make either McPhail Park or Coronation Park their target, increased exponentially over the last few weeks, with the concomitant increase in piles of human faeces and other non-descriptive litter. Used condoms, soiled baby nappies once in a while, believe it or not, and where drunken human beings have defecated in public.
Then, the ubiquitous green Heineken beer bottle. Let us not forget the green bottle, as there are usually mountains of them, making the recycle collectors drool with envy. I called the police, and they asked me what do I expect them to do. Come again…?
The term city by-law escapes them, and the fact that any peace officer can write out a First Instance of Crime where public drunkenness and disorderly behaviour is concerned, or excessive noise, is science fiction. Never heard of it.
Then we just carry on, paying our rates and taxes to the municipality, and we continue to be subjected to this abysmal incompetence from law enforcement officers… And when people do take the law into their own hands you can just imagine what the headlines would be. Unfortunately we all know this will happen and, of course, we do know the outcome too.
TIR
