A team of community wardens will be brought in to tackle anti-social behaviour in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Cabinet agreed on Wednesday, June 22, to employ a team of wardens to provide a visible, reassuring uniformed presence in areas where anti-social behaviour (ASB) is a problem, focusing on parks and town centres.
The council will also fund an additional 10 PCSOs, who will be deployed and directed by South Wales Police, to work in the county borough. This will be in addition to the Welsh Government’s commitment to fund another 100 PCSOs across Wales.
The council’s street care enforcement team is responsible for enforcement, through issuing on-the-spot fines, of certain day-to-day environmental crimes and offences, including litter dropping and dog fouling, and around the council’s public space protection orders (PSPOs). The idea is that the new community wardens will also be able to carry out enforcement activities around PSPOs as part of their role.
