星空传媒

Are landlords taking any advantage of the current legislation on antisocial behaviour? Are they passing on, with police aid, the benefits to the tenant? Are they redressing the wrongs inflicted on tenants in the past? Have they now got into place all that is necessary to ensure tenant safety now and into the future?

I am well aware of a very large area where precious little is being done to rid the community of this problem. At times, one might wonder if there is impunity both to authority and common criminal; authority surely, doing nothing, acquiesces in and endorses painfully unnecessary facts.

In one district of which I am aware, the fire commander deemed it essential to visit a tenant and to call upon police presence. Notwithstanding the fact that his visit was of national importance and there was a good chance of catching crime in the act, not a single bobby bothered to turn up. In the same district, there is a housing estate where the "let the criminal get on with it" attitude prevails.

Just as the imperative is to catch the criminal, acquiescence in his activities must never prevail.