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Free personal safety alarms for Basford pensioners

Local Basford councillors have decided to commit their £10,000 ward councillor budget to acquire personal safety alarms for all elderly people of a pensionable age in Basford. After a spate of street attacks / muggings, local councillors have responded to enable the elderly to fulfil their daily lives feeling safe and secure.

The alarms are multi-purpose and can be used on the individual or within the home.

Speaking to residents at Kersall Court residential home, Councillor Newton said:

“Crimes against the elderly are one of the most abhorrent crimes in society. Feeling safe and secure both inside the home and outside in the wider community is a fundamental basic human right.

These are rights that we seek to protect and hopefully this will start to deliver a strong message to would be perpetrators of these attacks.

Let it be known that the eyes of the community are firmly fixed on the safety of out elderly residents and in future, perpetrators of such attacks will be both heard and seen, and I would expect the community to respond accordingly.”

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