Hello, I’m posting about an incident I saw early evening Saturday which has made me concerned about the security of Eastside (and the personal safety of residents).

I was walking through the courtyard from front to back, and passed a teenage boy walking the other way who looked a bit suspicious. When I got inside my flat, from where I can see the back gate out of the window, I saw the boy come back (obviously having failed to get through the courtyard door) and try to get back out the gate. Not knowing how to do it from the inside, he put his hand through the gate and typed in the security code.

I’m pretty sure he had no connection to anyone in the flats, so I’m concerned that the security code is somehow circulating more widely than we think. On top of this, I came back one evening a couple of weeks ago and found two teenage boys by the back door, one of whom had climbed up the wall and was moving the CCTV camera.

I’ve called Crabtree and asked about either a) changing the code to the back gate, or b) installing a security system that requires a keyfob or something more physical than a code, both of which they said was a possibility. But obviously one request may not be enough to get this done, so in the meantime I wanted to make people aware of these incidences, and if anyone does see anything like this happening again if they could perhaps log it with Crabtree.

Thanks,

Lianne