VILLAGERS are calling for extra police patrols in a bid to stamp out anti-social behaviour.
Fed-up residents are also calling for CCTV cameras on Offa Street, Brymbo, to catch underage boozers who congregate outside the Premier Stores and Brymbo Clinic late at night.
Brymbo councillor Paul Rogers says broken glass and empty lager cans are often left strewn across the clinic car park to patients’ dismay.
He said: “The building is really quite old now. It’s an eyesore and suffers a fair bit of vandalism.
“The car park is regularly covered in broken glass and I don’t feel it is acceptable for visitors to the clinic to walk through broken glass. We want to improve security with a CCTV camera.”
Despairing residents called a meeting with Cllr Rogers and the neighbourhood police team to tackle the problem.
A 63-year-old resident, who lives in Bryn y Ffynnon Road, said: “You get young lads outside the village shop, and they always play football on the clinic car park.
“At the meeting we asked for more police patrols in the village but I have only ever seen them once since the meeting.”
A 16-year-old resident, also of Bryn y Ffynnon Road, added: “They were setting fireworks off near my flat so I went outside to tell them off, and I got a mouthful of abuse back.”
Sue Duhra, owner of Premier Stores on Offa Street, said: “We do get a lot of kids hanging around the clinic and outside the store. I find that if I ask them to move on politely they always do.”
A spokesman for the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: “The Health Board has agreed to look at a number of options including the possibility of linking in to an existing council system on the library premises nearby.”
Anybody with information can call North Wales Police on 101.