Young residents on the Campsbourne Estate, in Haringey, are being encouraged to use MSN, texts, email or phone to secretly report any trouble they witness or fear on the estate.
The initiative is the brainchild of Haringey's Anti-Social Behaviour Action Team, which is leafleting every household on the estate with details of how to report incidents. Mike Bagnall, antisocial behaviour manager at Haringey Council, said the idea is to connect with young people through a medium with which they feel comfortable.
"We looked at how young people communicated with each other and it's through text and MSN Messenger," he said. "It seemed a good idea to engage with them in that way rather than the traditional methods that we used before, like expecting them to telephone us."
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