A CURFEW to keep young people off the streets late at night would work in Toowoomba, according to The Chronicle's Facebook followers.
The Chronicle yesterday reported on the 8pm curfew in place in Miriam Vale .
If children under 16 are seen by police, their parents are contacted to pick them up, or the police take them home.
"It would be awesome," Vanessa Murray Hegarty said.
"I hate working Thursday nights. I always feel uneasy walking to the car when I finish. Usually groups of kids sometimes running through the car park."
Barbara Cotter said every town needed a curfew like that enforced in Miriam Vale.
"Children under 16 need to know their boundaries," she said.
"At the moment a lot of them are wandering the streets bored, looking for things to do, and of course with nothing better to do they get into mischief."
Despite support for a curfew in Toowoomba, many said it would disadvantage young people who worked nights.
Some suggested altering the time the curfew would be enforced to and the age to which it would be applied.
"Curfew after 9.30pm would work," Emily Weir said.
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"The majority of kids wouldn't be at work later than that."
"I would say more 10pm. If out afterwards and they do not have a decent reason for being out still then drop them off at home and then fine on the spot to the parents," Tanya Gillis said.
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