'Gangsters have even chased people down the road with knives.'
Local Democracy Reporting ServiceWardens deployed for antisocial revellers in Clapham High Street are more often having to deal with gang violence instead.Jeremy Keates said he was struggling to keep security staff because of the uptick in violence.
He said that the wardens, employed by Clapham Business Improvement District , have been working more as a "gang management service" in recent months. The wardens have had their body-worn cameras ripped off and been threatened with revenge attacks, leaving them fearful of phoning the police, Mr Keates told Lambeth Council."We've had a warden service, that is principally designed to deal with low-level antisocial behaviour as a result of intoxication, in more recent months become a gang-management service on the high street.
He told the meeting: "If you stop someone mugging you, you will be pounced on by about 16 different people and they will beat you until you're unconscious. Last weekend that happened to somebody.
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