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Interesting point by dejongj. I too live in a village but it's a new one and as the developers have not yet finished the roads have not been adopted. This makes for an interesting situation in that there is no legally enforceable speed limit on the estate, no parking regulations etc. unfortunately people know this and do speed to excess (one guy in his evo really does treat it as a racetrack), people park on blind bends, block corners and leave their cars fully on pavements. The police really are powerless and at a recent parish council meeting admitted that there was nothing they could do until the roads were adopted or there was a fatality.
So my point is I would loath seeing a private force patrolling as if they were the police, that is the job of the police. Any youth now is savvy enough to know the difference between plastic/ real copper and would just tell them to do one. However they may make certain sectors of the community feel safer.
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