Neighbourhood Watch areas can play an important role in the removal of graffiti and eventually stop it. Graffiti is vandalism which is against the law. Graffiti vandals use many different types of equipment to ply their trade, such as paint, crayons, texta markers, paint pens, ink and now the scratching of glass. We have 500 Neighbourhood Watch groups and 80 Rural Watch groups who live in the areas that are being vandalised and who are fighting Graffiti every day. To do this we work with Police to try and identify the offenders, and we clean-up.
Graffiti attracts graffiti.
We are oranising, planning and cleaning up. We also go about our clean up quietly so as not to antagonize anyone. W e get great support from our Local Government and Local Businesses or supply pain, brushes and chemicals. They also allocate funding for equipment such as special purpose trailers. We have built quite a few special trailers to assist us with our task and some groups are very active in educating young children to protect our neighbourhoods against this unsightly vandalism.