Falmouth Bay Street Watch to rise again after dying off (From Falmouth Packet)

No wonder this association thinks they run Falmouth because they do!!! I appreciate they may be doing good but what rights do they have to do this and what happens when someone takes exception to be told what to do by this so called good-doers!! This is something the authorities should be doing not these jumped up self appointed members!!

Lets hope they get in and around close to the town centre.

There's quite a few bits of grafitti about and I can think of a couple of bicycles that have been chained to a lamppost for about 18 months now!!! Who's responsibility are these things?

It has nothing to do with the residents association , anyone can do Street Watch.
Also the public have the same rights as street watch to tell people what to do if they consider it bad behaviour.
I understand the difference is that the Police are aware of who is doing the Watch and that if they receive a call from them they are likely to respond to sort out an issue, even if it's a non emergency. Otherwise incidents get logged by the Watch and handed in, just like any ordinary member of the public can do, in groups if they feel safer.
You could get a gathering of Girl Guides to walk around an inform people of their anti-social behaviour and report any to the police, makes no difference who or what group does the patrolling.
The connection in the Street Watch case, is the likelihood of police response due to prior "booking" of the patrols and that the hi-vis vests, the phones and the insurance is funded by the Police. That might be it, someone better in the know can correct me.

My personal issue is littering and dog mess.
I would like to go out with a friend and stand outside the Arwenack club for a bit as they smoke like trains in the doorway there and the pavement gets covered in butts.
If they don't respond to being told to pick them up I think you can call 999, as it would be an emergency if you believe the party who committed the offence is likely to get away and they are still at the scene of the offence.
They will face £2500 fine and a criminal record.
The police may have better things to do, but it's up to the public to decide on what they see in the street, littering is a real crime and should lead to police intervention.

Whoah! It'll be brown shirts and Berlin all over again if we start letting people strut about in hi viz vests looking for things to report, by direct line, to the police. I've noticed that the sort of people who like to do this sort of thing are usually the sort of people who shouldn't be allowed. If graffiti etc. is so rife along the seafront the authorities, not viz vested vigilantes, should patrol. We had a neighbourhood watch enthusiast round here who thought that neighbourhood watch meant watching you neighbours and reporting them for any perceived infringement. Luckily for her neighbours she joined the town council and her spooky night patrols ended. It's not nice having a torch shone in your face and someone demand to know what you're doing in the street at 4 in the morning. (I was tipsy and I was going home.)