CAPTURING close up images of rioters and helping build a skatepark are just two of the reasons people have been given prestigious community awards.

At the Safer Bromley Awards five winners in three categories were honoured for their contributions to life in the borough.

They included Bromley Council’s CCTV department in the above and beyond category for the work they did during the riots in August to capture footage and close ups of the perpetrators.

One of the five winners in the working together category was the Friends of Biggin Hill Parks group.

The group was nominated by the town’s safer neighbourhood team for its work in the parks including actively supporting the Biggin Hill Youth Panel to get the skate bowl built.

This bowl is said to have reduced the anti-social behaviour in the parks.

Other winners on the night included a victim support volunteer and a company director who organises table tennis sessions in his spare time.

They also included two women who run a programme for survivors of domestic violence and two Darrick Wood School sixth formers who worked with their safer neighbourhood team and put forward ideas about cutting anti-social behaviour.

Safer Bromley Partnership chairman Councillor Tim Stevens told the audience at the event at The Warren, Hayes Lane, Hayes: “We are here tonight to recognise those community leaders and volunteers who have gone above and beyond what was expected.

“Without the supreme and unselfish efforts of many of you here tonight, there would be no partnership helping to make Bromley such a safe, clean, green pleasant place to live, work, visit and relax.”

The co-host borough commander Chief Superintendent Steph Roberts said: “It is important for the partnership to recognise the contribution of those willing to give time to their neighbourhood, they have made - and continue to make - a really big difference.

“Their unwavering dedication helps to ensure our borough is a great place for all to enjoy and we’d be a much poorer society without such incredibly dedicated people."