Blackburn and Darwen criminals give 10,000 hours of payback to society

5:00pm Thursday 18th October 2012 in News

MORE than 10,000 hours of community service have been completed by criminals in Blackburn with Darwen in the past six months.

Since April 2012, the community has benefited from £62,000 of free labour, equating to those hours being paid at minimum wage.

A recent project completed by the community payback team, is the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee biological heritage site in Feniscowles and Pleasington War Memorial Recreation Ground.

Supervised by Lancashire Probation Trust, offenders cut hedges, picked litter, strimmed over-grown vegetation and removed ragwort.

Brian White, chairman of the Jubilee heritage site, said: “It’s a good thing that offenders can do work in the community to pay back for their crimes. I think it helps them as they can learn new skills instead of being pushed away into jail.”

Community Payback is a sentence passed by the court which allows convicted criminals to repay their debt to society by working for free to improve their local area.

David Luke, Lancashire Probation Trust supervisor, said: “Offenders wear hi-visibility vests when they carry out the work that makes it clear they are completing rigorous community payback.

“They are carrying out demanding work and at the same time we are able to teach offenders new skills.”

Comments (7)

5:16pm Thu 18 Oct 12

Jacko953 says...

shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees
shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees Jacko953

5:33pm Thu 18 Oct 12

CapitaBackHander says...

Jacko953 wrote:
shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees
I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines.
Some people are just blinkered....
[quote][p][bold]Jacko953[/bold] wrote: shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees[/p][/quote]I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines. Some people are just blinkered.... CapitaBackHander

5:39pm Thu 18 Oct 12

Dave_P says...

CapitaBackHander wrote:
Jacko953 wrote:
shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees
I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines.
Some people are just blinkered....
Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems.
[quote][p][bold]CapitaBackHander[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Jacko953[/bold] wrote: shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees[/p][/quote]I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines. Some people are just blinkered....[/p][/quote]Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems. Dave_P

5:56pm Thu 18 Oct 12

CapitaBackHander says...

Dave_P wrote:
CapitaBackHander wrote:
Jacko953 wrote:
shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees
I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines.
Some people are just blinkered....
Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems.
What the heck are you talking about? Have you got a clue what you are discussing?
[quote][p][bold]Dave_P[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]CapitaBackHander[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Jacko953[/bold] wrote: shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees[/p][/quote]I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines. Some people are just blinkered....[/p][/quote]Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems.[/p][/quote]What the heck are you talking about? Have you got a clue what you are discussing? CapitaBackHander

6:12pm Thu 18 Oct 12

darwenTower says...

Dave_P wrote:
CapitaBackHander wrote:
Jacko953 wrote:
shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees
I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines.
Some people are just blinkered....
Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems.
It would rather depend what the fine was for really, wouldn't it?
[quote][p][bold]Dave_P[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]CapitaBackHander[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]Jacko953[/bold] wrote: shame there wasn't the jobs there in the first place then may be they wouldn't have need to get in trouble in the first place government running the country to its knees[/p][/quote]I can't go along with that for one minute! First of all, I bet the majority are for serious traffic offences, assault, non payment of fines. Some people are just blinkered....[/p][/quote]Some people are blinkered and I think you are one.. how can non-payment of a fine be remotely like a serious traffic offence or assault? They have you brainwashed well it seems.[/p][/quote]It would rather depend what the fine was for really, wouldn't it? darwenTower

7:08pm Thu 18 Oct 12

jimpy0 says...

At what cost in man hours supervision, transport etc etc - good luck to those that can get access to this free service, many groups cant.
At what cost in man hours supervision, transport etc etc - good luck to those that can get access to this free service, many groups cant. jimpy0

8:10pm Thu 18 Oct 12

goz says...

Excellent let's see the tasering the blind man copper on communiry service as well.
Excellent let's see the tasering the blind man copper on communiry service as well. goz

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