The City of Hamilton has met with Deputy Premier Derrick Burgess in an effort to introduce rangers to tackle the city’s growing number of vagrants.Mayor Charles Gosling said he has spoken with Mr Burgess, who asked for a presentation and documentation so he can make an informed decision. “It was a very, very positive meeting, and some of the documentation has been made available to him,” Mr Gosling said at a public meeting held yesterday.A city ranger scheme was introduced several years ago, but was later disbanded because the rangers had no ability to enforce the law.The City has tried since 2009 to reintroduce the programme. Its idea is to arm rangers with similar powers to park rangers, including the ability to make arrests.The hope was that the rangers would be able to help the Bermuda Police Service tackle antisocial behaviour in Hamilton.“They would have strict rules with proper oversight, and this would be legislated,” Mr Gosling said in yesterday’s meeting. “But legislation is not as simple as a click of the fingers.”Other City officials noted that they had seen increasingly aggressive behavior by vagrants in the city; Deputy Mayor Glen Smith said a man grabbed him twice outside a North Hamilton restaurant demanding food.“I don’t know what we are going to do to deal with this,” he said. “It appears that it is spiralling out of control.“The other aspect is that I spoke with a person who is having difficulty renting his building, in part because vagrants are living in the next building. This is real, and something needs to happen.”Useful websites: www.cityhall.bm, www.gov.bm.