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Young offenders are to be put to work cleaning
graffiti as part of a pilot project in Cork city.
The extension of the scheme, which has been
piloted in the Mahon area, was rubber-stamped at a council
meeting last week.
The pilot project was set up between Cork City
Council and the Probation Service following months of talks.
It is based on similar
projects operating in South Dublin County Council
for the last year and in the Dublin City Council area for
a few weeks.
The Cork project will see offenders sentenced
to Community Service Orders being assigned to supervised teams,
managed by the Probation Service.
The city council’s Social Housing Section will
identify areas where graffiti is a problem and the teams will
move in to those areas to begin the clean-up.
The Probation Service has three supervisors
and a mini-bus to transport the teams, so the only cost to
the city will be the supply of cleaning chemicals.
While the initial focus will be on cleaning
up areas of social housing, it is expected other areas will
be added as the project develops.
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