FENCING slathered with slippery paint has been put up to protect an Abingdon building.
Residents had complained that the former Upper Reaches Hotel in Thames Street had become a favourite hangout for antisocial youths, since its closure in 2015.
But police said problems have now been solved thanks to high-visibility patrols and new fencing coated with ‘anti-climb paint’; an oily substance used to deter intruders.
In a neighbourhood newsletter this month, officers said: ‘Since these measures have been introduced we have had no further [antisocial behaviour] reports.”
In March the police helicopter was called out to the building after a group of young trespassers hauled themselves up onto the hotel roof, raising concerns about security.
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