Anti-social behaviour is defined as: “Acting in a manner which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as himself”. This threatening behaviour causes alarm and distress for law-abiding citizens.
This may include such behaviour relating to nuisance neighbours, yobbish behaviour including intimidating groups, vandalism, drug dealing, dumping rubbish, begging and anti-social drinking.
Examples of anti-social behaviour include:
- Nuisance, rowdy or inconsiderate neighbours
- Vandalism, graffiti and fly-posting
- Street drinking
- Environmental damage including littering, dumping of rubbish and abandonment of cars
- Prostitution related activity
- Begging and vagrancy
- Fireworks misuse
- Inconsiderate or inappropriate use of vehicles
The police, local authorities and other community safety partner agencies, such as Fire & Rescue and social housing landlords, all have a responsibility to deal with anti-social behaviour and to help people who are suffering from it.
What help is available?
Any incidents should be reported to the local Community Wardens, Police, Housing Executive office and/or the local council. It would be helpful if you could record what happened, where and at what time – also a brief description of who was involved and what effect it had on you.
Both individuals and communities can be harmed by anti-social behaviour and should be stopped as soon as it is apparent.
For further information on where to go for help click on the web links below.
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Useful website
gov.uk/crime-anti-social-behaviour
