Posted By Deana Daniels An inner city college has an increasing problem with anti social behaviour and fights outside it's gates on the surrounding streets. They are receiving complaints from residents and are sending staff and security contractors off site to speak to students, break up groups etc. They are now proposing regular off site patrols around the neighbouring streets. Staff are trained, the security staff are licenced, they go out in pairs etc Their insurance company state that they are insured provided that staff don't put themselves at 'undue risk' but I am concerned. What jurisdiction do they have to patrol local streets? They have been known to address a group of youths only to find out they are not college students! Does anybody else have any experience of this issue and how do you deal with it?

Posted By Ucan My thoughts too, this is a police matter, contact your local station.

Posted By seanc My Partner is a teacher at a secondary school, the children at lunch time used to cause havoc in the local community and the school was responsible for their actions. Their solution was to cut the lunch break to 30 minutes and no children were allowed off the school premises. The problems started on Friday afternoons, because the lunch breaks had been cut the pupils were allowed to finish for the day at midday. The school was therefore not responsible for any actions taken by the children after this time. I felt sorry for the local community, this was forced through by the head teacher, probably to improve some statistics somewhere.