By Dan Malouff – Arlington County transportation planner who blogs independently at BeyondDC.com. The Local Blog Network is a group of bloggers from around the D.C. region who have agreed to make regular contributions to All Opinions Are Local. Do teenagers have...
We’ve spent the morning trying to figure that out. Yesterday the Prince of Petworth posted some photos of a white, box-like contraption hanging at the top of the Metro escalators at 7th and H streets NW. As PoP noted, the device looks an awful lot like the...
Teenagers who loiter at the Gallery Place Commercial Strip are being told to buzz off. A noisemaker called “The Mosquito” is now mounted on the wall near the escalator at the Metro stop. The anti-loitering device was invented in Wales a few years ago and...
Mosquito Loitering Solutions, manufacturers of innovative security products such as the controversial MOSQUITO Teen Deterrent have picked up the Firefly Safety product ‘BreakOut’ which was rejected unfairly by the Dragons on Dragons Den on 22rd August...
TRYING to stop young people from going to school is not something you would normally expect of teachers. But staff at Wheatley Primary School and neighbouring John Watson special school have been doing just that. They have installed a high-pitched Mosquito device to...
From Denis MacShane MP. Sir, The headline over your report (June 26) on the Council of Europe’s short debate on “Mosquito” machines, which emit a noise that disperses rowdy teenagers, claimed that “Brussels” was to clamp down on these...
The UK government has rejected calls to ban a device that uses a high-pitched noise to disperse teenage gangs. Police minister Nick Herbert said it was up to councils dealing with anti-social behaviour to decide whether or not to use The Mosquito™. But the...
The Council of Europe this morning voted to ban the use and marketing of the Mosquito teen deterrent within Europe. 59 members voted in total out of the 489 current members. It MUST be noted that the Council of Europe have NO power to enforce a ban on ANY product...
Mr Piotr WACH, the Polish member of the European Council will this week be calling for a ban on the use and marketing of the Mosquito device by the European Council PACE committee (Note; The Council of Europe have no power to create legislation and so CANNOT ban the...
A youth service director has criticised the use of a mosquito device which emits a high pitched noise to disperse youngsters in Bradford. Miriam Jackson, from the Youth Work Unit, said it seemed like “we’re seeing our young people as pests”. Police...
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