Laura Brown, an anti-social behaviour co-ordinator, Sharon Bendrey EHDC's community safety officer and Jamie Lawes, a crime prevention design advisor, gave a presentation to district councillors and members of the public about crime and disorder.
Miss Bendrey is heavily involved in the planned CREW (crime reduction and environment week) for the town and works closely with various organisations to try and identify crime issues in the district and look at ways of resolving them.
"We have been given a budget of £150,000 from a central government fund which will go towards 15 different projects in the area, to help us deliver our target to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour," said Mrs Bendrey.
Miss Brown then explained to the committee that her role as anti-social behaviour co-ordinator was to try and prevent, or deal with, problems with individuals and groups.
She said: "We assess the usefulness of mediation methods, fencing off areas or installing lighting as appropriate. We also consider issuing warnings or acceptable behaviour contracts, which are voluntary agreements between an individual and one or more of the partnership organisations and can last for up to six months."
Mr Lawes then addressed the committee about the risk management advice he offers in order to reduce residents' chances of being burgled.
In his capacity as crime prevention design advisor, Mr Lawes told members that his aim was to "design out crime" by making residential properties "burglar-proof".
Mr Lawes said: "We liaise with architects and planners and can influence the way homes are designed so that they are secure by design."
Mr Lawes believed in design as a viable preventative method and mentioned that there was a successful pilot scheme in Manchester, where all planning applications have to adhere to a "secure by design" scheme.
"There has been almost a 70 per cent decrease in the affected areas and the pilot will go on for another four years," Mr Lawes added.
Despite the positive presentation, some people were still not happy with the crime and disorder situation in Bordon. One resident who attended the meeting was extremely upset at she believed was lack of action from the police in curbing anti-social behaviour.
"We have got youths running around banging on windows, shouting and swearing and the police don't seem to be doing anything.
"I have written to the council about it and have made a diary. We have to go away every weekend just to get some peace," said Mrs Rudd of Cypress Road.
Mr Lawes said that he would look into what could be done from a design aspect and added that the police have a difficult job of getting out to calls in the evening because there are not as many officers on duty.
But Mrs Rudd hit back adding: "We need a police presence. These youths don't care about anybody." Mrs Brown assured Mrs Rudd that action could be taken to ease her predicament.
District representative for Bordon, Donald Mayes vented his frustration at the local police. He said that close to £1,000 worth of damage had recently been caused to the Alexandra Centre, which was not an isolated incident, and condemned the lack of police response to such activity.
He said: "They always come after the act. We can talk all we want, but what is being done? Design is fine, but let's have something done about it.
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