I WAS very interested to read about the anti-vandalism campaign started throughout West and Central Fife.

This is something that is needed to make people aware of the problems this can cause and the damage that can be done.

It is a problem that has been happening in the Cowdenbeath-Lochgelly area for decades and various ideas to tackle it have at best had a moderate effect.

There has been some good initiatives to make things better like the shutter art project in Cowdenbeath along with the painting of the Stenhouse Street underpass.

But really maybe we need to see things greatly improved and this concerted partnership approach could work.

I can remember the Enjoy Do Not Destroy motto which the Crime Prevention Panel coined in the early 1990s and maybe it is time to break it out again.

Children really need to get that message and maybe educating kids on the motto is a good way to lay the right sort of base to fight this problem which leads to damage totalling tens of thousands of pounds of damage each year.

Whether it be a window broken or graffiti it damages the communities people live in and leaves a legacy.

At the same time it can cost a lot of money to repair the damage and it is cash that could be better spent.

So to see the police leading this new venture is encouraging to see and hopefully it will attract people in communities to back it.

It looks like there are a number of initiatives to be undertaken and put into action to assist in this and it will be good to see these go into action.

But I really believe that education can play a good role in this and if youngsters can take on board the ‘Enjoy Do Not Destroy’ message it will be something that stays with them as they become young adults.

ANTI-VANDAL,

Ballingry.