Residents will soon be able to keep track of offences

MEMBERS of the public will soon be able to keep track of nuisance offences within their own neighbourhoods. The wheels are in motion for recorded statistics on these incidents to be made publicly available via Dumfries and Galloway Council’s website, writes Marc McLean. A report by the council’s community safety team for 2024/25 revealed that there continues to be high numbers of incidents across Dumfries and Galloway. Speaking at the council’s education, skills, and community wellbeing committee on Tuesday, Annandale South Councillor Sean Marshall said: “These issues blight the whole of our region and I’m just wondering if information can be sent outwith the meeting on the spread of that across locations if possible. A little bit more of a breakdown on where those offences were carried out and penalised.” Martin Ogilvie, the council’s resilience and community safety manager, replied: “We gather that information down to ward level, and it’s the ambition of the team within the next quarter that all of that information will be made available publicly and openly via the council webpage or portal. “That will allow anyone, including members, to search a date and time and geographical area to get the data that we hold.”