Mr. Alan Todd:

The difficulty in policing lies in making decisions about the spectrum of innocent folks who are catching up with one another moving into low level anti-social behaviour to higher level anti-social behaviour to crime. In some places large numbers of meetings arranged via social media have caused problems and we have had to make a more robust response, as the meetings are causing fear among local communities, as well as low level crime, including criminal damage. It has been an emerging trend for us. Whether issues such as this have to do with a lack of facilities is a conversation people have been having for as long as I remember. We have not yet solved the problem. The position varies from area to area. With an ageing population, people have a different perception of three or four young people on a street corner and can make calls to the police. I am unsure as to whether providing more facilities would be an answer. I am a supporter of having facilities available for young people to give them something constructive to do with their time, but we also have other challenges to face on the edges in the social media age.