'People fearing for their lives' due to car-related anti-social behaviour in Scarborough
Police say they're receiving calls of complaints by residents
Scarborough Police say they are receiving calls of people fearing for their lives due to anti-social behaviour relating to cars.
Officers say they do not want to stop them from having fun but they hve had to put things in place due to previous incidents by a small minority of people.
Sergeant Jamie Lord is in charge of the Community Impact Team for Scarborough town centre and said: "We obviously welcome everybody to come through to Scarborough to have a good time and enjoy themselves. We've had to put things in place due to previous incidents that have happened. We act what we're getting told and what information we have and what's coming into us and we react from that.
"Ultimately people are complaining to us about the behaviour of albeit, a very small minority of these groups, but nevertheless, it's significant enough for us to have to implement things such as the PSPO which we have in Scarborough to prevent groups congregating and issues being created.
"We're getting calls of people driving fast and there might be a particular set of bends. For example, on Westwood there's some bends there and we get complaints of people going around those too fast, people wheel spinning, playing music loudly, doing doughnuts in car parks. It's very anti-social. People live in these areas and they don't want to have to put up with that. It's not fair.
"People wouldn't ring us if they genuinely didn't fear for their safety. We get a lot of complaints. We have to look at it because we want people to be here and enjoy themselves but we also have to enforce any breaches of laws and things as and when they turn up. We have to act on the information we're given.
"If people are complaining about things, we're duty bound to look into that and investigate it. When people are ringing up and they say they're fearing for their safety or there's been dangerous overtakes and things like that, then that's something we have to look into."