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Ramsgate girl's hopscotch grid 'sparked Kent Police warning' | Ramsgate girl's hopscotch grid 'sparked Kent Police warning' |
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Police told a girl of 10 that drawing a chalk hopscotch grid on the pavement outside her house was criminal damage. | |
Bob Allen, from Ramsgate, said the officers frightened his daughter, Lily-May Allen, and has lodged a complaint with Kent Police, who are trying to trace them. | Bob Allen, from Ramsgate, said the officers frightened his daughter, Lily-May Allen, and has lodged a complaint with Kent Police, who are trying to trace them. |
He said: "I'm so infuriated that they didn't come and knock on the door and ask to see me or her mum. | He said: "I'm so infuriated that they didn't come and knock on the door and ask to see me or her mum. |
"They've just gone and said something to her and then just driven off." | "They've just gone and said something to her and then just driven off." |
Advice 'not necessary' | Advice 'not necessary' |
He added: "That's not the way for the police to deal with the problem, if there is a problem. And I don't think there is a problem here, so they shouldn't have said anything in the first place." | He added: "That's not the way for the police to deal with the problem, if there is a problem. And I don't think there is a problem here, so they shouldn't have said anything in the first place." |
Lily-May said: "The police came over to me and said you can't draw on the floor because it's criminal damage. It kind of scared me." | Lily-May said: "The police came over to me and said you can't draw on the floor because it's criminal damage. It kind of scared me." |
Kent Police said they were trying to establish which officers may have spoken to the girl but could not trace any car in the area at the time mentioned. | Kent Police said they were trying to establish which officers may have spoken to the girl but could not trace any car in the area at the time mentioned. |
A police spokesman said: "From the circumstances described, it would not appear to have been necessary to advise the young girl that chalking a hopscotch grid may be criminal damage and illegal." | A police spokesman said: "From the circumstances described, it would not appear to have been necessary to advise the young girl that chalking a hopscotch grid may be criminal damage and illegal." |
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