By Ben Hill For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 00:49 BST, 16 May 2019 | Updated: 00:53 BST, 16 May 2019
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Residents of an affluent Sydney suburb are being terrorised by a group of 200 children who have gone on a series of crime rampages while under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
A group of 21 teenagers were found drunk and wandering the streets on Sydney's northern beaches last weekend and had to be collected by their parents.
Northern Beaches Commander Superintendent Dave Darcy is so concerned about the problem that he was written a letter to principals from schools in the area pleading with them and parents to control their children.
'There has been a significant deterioration in the behaviour of young people in the area. Teens, ages ranging from 13 to 18, from local schools, are out at all hours of the night, fuelled up on alcohol and drugs, both illegal and prescription,' he wrote in the letter.
Two hundred children have gone on a rampant crime spree, terrorising residents in an affluent Sydney suburb. Pictured: The aftermath of a fight in Newport in March
Northern Beaches Commander Superintendent Dave Darcy is so concerned about the problem that he was written a letter to principals from schools. Pictured: Children being spoken to after a fight in Newport
'They're reacting angrily and aggressively towards members of the public, bus drivers and police.
'It's behaviour that's escalated from the problematic to, in some cases,
