Surrey Police has today 12 April, launched Canal Watch, a community initiative to tackle anti-social behaviour and following a number of sexual exposure offences and suspicious incidents which have been reported along the Basingstoke Canal towpath in Woking.
The initiative is the first of its kind in the south of England, and has been launched in collaboration with Woking Borough Council, Neighbourhood Watch, Basingstoke Canal Authority and the Basingstoke Canal Society. The initiative will see volunteers patrol the towpath and report any suspicious incidents, anti-social behaviour, or degradation to the towpath, to the police or relevant authority.
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