AntiSocial Behaviour Action Plan

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Anti-Social BehaviourAction Plan

• John Dunworth
• November 09

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Anti-social behaviour is defined as any behaviour
causing harassment alarm or distress to one or
more persons not of the same household.
What exactly is anti-social behaviour?
The British Crime Survey (BCS) and Communities
and Local Government Place Survey measure
perceptions under seven strands Teenagers
hanging around on the streets People using or
dealing drugs People being drunk or rowdy in
public places Noisy neighbours/loud
parties Rubbish or litter lying around Vandalism,
graffiti and other deliberate damage to
property Abandoned or burnt out cars
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Drivers for new action

• Justice Seen/Justice Done
• Meeting our Public Service Agreements 23
  Confidence Target
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• National Indicators 17 and 21
• Home Secretarys announcement

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The New Action Plan

• Key themes
• National action with Crime and Disorder Reduction
  Partnerships to improve local services especially
  in targeted areas
• National take up campaign for the public
• New Deal for Victims and Witnesses

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National action with CDRPs

• Ensuring that CDRPs
• Increase the use of tools and powers
• Promote local service standards
• Provide regular updates to communities
• Encourage effective links between neighbourhood
  police teams and neighbourhood management
• Have access to reliable data

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National take up campaign for the public

• Ensure the public have
• Access to information on local services and local
  performance
• A simple way to report
• Are regularly informed of what action is being
  taken generally and how individual cases are
  progressing
• Keep victims, regularly informed about action
  being taken against perpetrator

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Action on victims witnesses of ASB

• Extending victim support to ASB cases in
  magistrates courts
• 85 new Victims champions in priority areas
• Exploring new options for case management and
  risk assessments

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Action in priority areas

• Analyse data (September 09)
• Partnership meetings between HO officials and
  local co-ordinators, facilitated by the
  Government Office ASB leads
• Partnership engagement with NCJG/pioneer areas.
• Each non NCJG area to be visited by the ASB
  Delivery managers Aaron Devereaux and Paul Cullen

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Action in priority areas

• Assessment and analysis of the current
  problems and
• agree a local action Plan
• work in partnership to unblock barriers to
  delivery including by deployment of the Squad and
  the creation of ASB panels
• provide access to a menu of interventions to
  assist local communities tackle ASB
• ensure areas have reliable ASB perception data
  to monitor and evaluate progress

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ASBO breaches

• Strengthening Anti Social Behaviour Order
  breaches
• Undertaking a review with all Local Criminal
  Justice Boards to assess how Breaches are being
  dealt with and if more needs to be done.

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Developing case management systems

• Looking to develop multi agency case management
  systems which will identify risk and vulnerability

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Timetable

• September 09
• Desktop analysis of priority areas
• Early contact with Government Offices
• Early contact with CDRPs

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Timetable

• October 09-January 10
• Delivery managers visits start
• Local surveys negotiated
• Action plans developed for each priority area.
• Deployment of the Action Team/Squad

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Timetable

• October 09
• 1st Senior inter-departmental programme Board
  meeting
• November 09
• 2nd Senior inter-departmental programme board
  meeting (then monthly)
• November 09
• 1st meeting Inter-Ministerial Group.
• February/March 10
• 2nd meeting of Inter-Ministerial Meeting.