NEW ROMNEY NEWS

New Romney is set to get a Community Warden as part of the latest expansion planned by Kent County Council.

It will bring the number of community wardens in Kent to 100 by the end of the financial year.

Councillors have also approved the expansion of the highly successful scheme to urban areas outside town centres and additional funding of £323,000 this year.

The warden scheme aims to reduce crime and fear of crime, to address anti-social behaviour and low-level crime and to help build strong communities and has been enormously successful. It is supported by Kent Police both in training and in police back-up.

Kent's Chief Constable Mike Fuller told the Cabinet that the warden scheme provided a high degree of reassurance to communities in the county and lessened the fear of crime.