WTF? UK police ticket you for being good: Scheme hopes to encourage positive behaviour

Police are handing out on-the-spot tickets - for good behaviour.

Officers in south Manchester have started dishing out the tickets to children and teenagers they see behaving well on the neighbourhood's streets. The 'positive tickets' have so far been given out when officers see youths using pedestrian crossings, putting their litter in the bin, riding their bike on the road instead of the pavement or using bike lights at night.

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The scheme is currently being trialled around Didsbury and Chorlton - with the aim of encouraging good behaviour among youngsters. So far around 20 tickets have been given out by police officers and PCSOs, with plans to extend it to other areas if successful. It is hoped vouchers for activities like the cinema, or to spend in shops, could be given out if a sponsor for the tickets can be found.

And the scheme has been welcomed. Mario Culpeper, 21, served a year in a young offenders' institute for a violent street robbery and was well-known to police growing up in Chorlton.

Mario, who now lives in Withington, said: 'I used to think badly of the police and think I was always getting picked on by them. I think if they had done something like this scheme when I was younger it might have helped. Hopefully, it will change other peoples' opinions of police." But other teenagers weren't so impressed by the scheme.

Ryan O'Flaherty, 18, from Withington said: 'I have been stopped by the police a couple of times for no reason.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/mailonsunday/article-2308789/Oh-Now-police-ticket--good-Scheme-hopes-encourage-positive-behaviour.html

PR gimmick!

Stick & Carrot!

But unpeeled...

CovOps wrote:: But unpeeled...

Nor washed.

WTF? UK police ticket you for being good: Scheme hopes to encourage positive behaviour

WTF? UK police ticket you for being good: Scheme hopes to encourage positive behaviour

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