Vigilantes can also be intimidating, PCC warns

VIGILANTE groups in Bournemouth have been criticised by the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner.

- TREVOR BEVINS [e-mail]

David Sidwick say they are there “for a problem which doesn’t exist” and are only providing fuel for mainstream and social media to tarnish the town.

He was responding to a question about vigilantes from Talbot & Branksome Woods Cllr Karen Rampton at a meeting of the pan-Dorset Police and Crime Panel.

She queried whether the summer growth in visitors, which puts police under pressure, had contributed to the growth in vigilante activities.