Following representations from members of Cottesmore's Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, the parish council has agreed the village may benefit from becoming involved in the Community Speed Watch Scheme.
The scheme requires a minimum of six volunteers but no more than 16 to take part as Community Speed Watch Volunteers (CSWV).
One of these should be identified as a co-ordinator, who should have access to e-mail, and a deputy.
Volunteers will be
trained in the use of speed detection devices by the CSW Co-ordinator for Leicestershire, with additional roadside training in health and safety.
Volunteers will monitor the speed of vehicles at identified locations – Main Street and Rogues Lane being obvious sites for our community.
Working in pairs, the volunteers will create a log of vehicles exceeding the agreed speed limit, recording registration numbers, times, dates and location.
Completed logs are forwarded to the CSW Co-ordinator Leicestershire and then forwarded to the police for police national computer checks, with consideration being given to the sending out of warning letters to registered keepers.
If you would like to give your support to the scheme, please complete and sign the pledge sheet which you will find in the village shop.
Members of Cottesmore's Neighbourhood Watch Scheme have also kindly agreed to give of their time and shoe leather to call on households within their areas in an effort to obtain the required number of signatures.
In order to qualify for the CSW scheme, either 200 signatures or 20 per cent of the vilage (whichever is the lower figure) need to be obtained from residents offering their support.
The Community Speed Watch is intended simply to establish, once and for all, that speeding is and continues to be a problem in Cottesmore and to actively address that problem.
It is not intended to be a draconian scheme, operated by village 'vigilantes' with grudges, who will take an unholy delight in 'shopping' their neighbours whose speedometer needle creeps over the 30mph line!
If you would like to know more about the scheme and how it works or indeed would like to become a CSW volunteer, please contact Susie Iannantuoni, Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator for the village.
Telephone 812447 or e-mail susie@trunktree.plus.com. There is an informative DVD available to borrow, prepared by CSW Leicestershire.
While the topic is deadly serious, the actual production is an absolute 'guinea a minute' and well worth watching.
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