Keeping our street lights working is not only essential for road safety it is an important deterrent against crime. It has some psychological effects of making a legitimate user feel safer while at the same time having an inhibiting effect on the non-legitimate user. The best way of ensuring that we keep our street lights working is to ensure that faults can be reported easily and problems fixed quickly. C.O.P. patrollers should keep this as another thing to the list of what to keep our eyes and ears open for.