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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent

North Wales police threaten to ban people who call about bins and noisy kids

Plastic wheeled rubbish bin lying on the road
One of the calls recevied by NWP was about ‘neighbours who don’t put their bins away’. Photograph: Simon McGill/Getty Images

People who call to complain about their neighbours could face a contact ban for wasting police resources, a police force has said.

In a social media post on the weekend, North Wales police (NWP) said they had responded to four antisocial behaviour callouts in 24 hours for disputes such as “neighbours who don’t put their bins away or kids playing in the garden making too much noise during the day”.

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