The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 defines anti-social behaviour as:
Behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons not of the same household as the perpetrator. Anti-social behaviour can range from serious acts of violence and harassment, to more everyday incidents such a noise nuisance or vandalism of the estate or local area and may or may not amount to a criminal act.
Up until 4th October 2012 Nottingham City Council recorded incidents of ASB and passed on the information in confidence to the local patch manager to deal with it under the tenancy regulations, and the local beat manager.
However, On October 5th Nottinghamshire Police took over the role of dealing with Antisocial behaviour (ASB). Anyone reporting antisocial behaviour are now asked to phone the Police control room on 101, however, the ASB incident is not recorded by them or placed on file? Instead the victim is asked to phone their local beat Manager to report the incident.
In my experience of this new system, if as the victim of antisocial behaviour you do not report the incident to the Police on the day it takes place, the police officer in the control room questions why it was not reported to the Police at the time it happened, and proceeds to suggests that the ASB incident was insignificant!
Antisocial behaviour is all of the following:
• noise such as playing loud music or having loud parties
•verbal abuse, harassment, intimidation, threatening behaviour
•hate related incidents
•vandalism and damage to property
•nuisance from vehicle including mini-motors
•drug misuse and dealing
•alcohol related disturbances
•domestic abuse or violence
•physical violence (not domestic violence), including threat of violence
•litter, rubbish, fly-tipping
•garden nuisance, overgrown gardens and hedges
•misuse of public space, loitering, prostitution, sexual acts, kerb crawling
•other criminal behaviour not included in above categories
By Jonathan Green
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