{"id":955217,"date":"2026-05-12T17:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:02:22","slug":"dispersal-zone-brought-in-over-threats-and-damage-in-birkenhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/955217\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispersal zone brought in over &#8216;threats and damage&#8217; in Birkenhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Nicola Hughes said: &#8220;Unfortunately, this is the second dispersal zone we&#8217;ve had to introduce in Birkenhead town centre in recent weeks as we continue to see youth-related anti-social behaviour and criminality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that these orders are extremely effective because it allows us to protect law-abiding residents and shop workers who just want to go about their daily lives without being subjected to this type of behaviour from youths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Hughes said there would be increased patrols in the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would once again like to take this opportunity to appeal to parents and guardians, and urge them to know where their child is, what they are up to and friends they are with,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No parent wants a knock on their door from a police officer informing them that their child has been arrested or been involved in a serious accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insp Nicola Hughes said: &#8220;Unfortunately, this is the second dispersal zone we&#8217;ve had to introduce in Birkenhead town&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116562686780818189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}