POLICE officers in Callington are urging parents to keep a check on the whereabouts of their children, following a rise in youth-related anti-social behaviour in the town. There have been numerous incidents of homes and vehicles being damaged in the Trelawney Road and Hazelwood Road areas over the past two weeks. Prior to that Guipavas Road had been a target. Sergeant Brett Phillips said the onus was on parents to ask where their children had been, especially over the half term holiday. 'There has been a rise in reports of incidents but also in passing comments from members of the community,' he said, 'Everyone has a part to play in tackling anti-social behaviour and we would ask the community to help the police in this respect.' A rear windscreen wiper on a Renault Laguna was ripped off some time between the evening of February 2 and the morning of February 3 in Trelawney Road (crime number BN/07/74) and a window was smashed on a property in the early hours of February 9 in the same road. Police believe the culprits used a traffic cone (BN/08/80). A hole was punched through a garden fence overnight on February 8/9 in Pollard Road (BN/08/81), a car badge was taken from a Ford Ka parked in Hazelwood Road on February 18 (BN/08/84), a glass panelled front door was damaged on the evening of February 9 in Hazelwood Road (BN/08/88) and a silver Audi had its windscreen wipers ripped off on February 8 between 8pm and 10pm at the same location (BN/08/90.) A wooden fence was damaged in Trelawney Road between February 9 and 10 and also in Coombe Road a solar powered garden light was stolen on February 10 (BN/08/86). Two ornamental trees, valued at £300, were stolen from the Kelly Bray area between 6pm on February 11 and 11am on February 12. Police would also like information on incidents of criminal damage to a front wall at a property in the Norris Green area, where the letters ST ANS were sprayed on with black ink (BN/08/82); damage to the bonnet of a blue Renault Clio at Drakewalls overnight on February 5/6 (BN/08/70) and damage to a caravan at Drakewalls on February 11, which involved smashing a window causing damage estimated at £50 (BN/08/91).
