ASB TOOLS AND POWERS

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Tackling and preventinganti-social behaviour

• ASB TOOLS AND POWERS

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Anti-social Behaviour Unit

• Located in Portsmouth City council Offices.
• Made up of Manager, Housing caseworkers(4)
  Private sector caseworker,Police Officer, Legal
  administrators (2), Solicitor, CCTV manager and
  ABC coordinator
• Co-located with Early Intervention team and PYOP

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ASB definition

• Anti social behaviour is defined in section 1(1)a
  of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 as an
  individual acting in a manner that caused or was
  likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to
  one or more persons not of the same household as
  him / herself.

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Possible Actions

• ABCS
• ASBOS (Civil and Post Conviction)
• Parenting Orders.
• Dispersal Area
• Crack House Closure soon to be premise closure
  orders.
• Criminal Prosecutions
• Individual Support Orders. Intervention Orders
• Tenancy Enforcement (Injunctions, Possession,
  Demoted Tenancies)
• Environmental Health Enforcement
• Educational Welfare Enforcement

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Acceptable Behaviour contracts

• Early stage intervention
• Youth Justice Panel
• ABC coordinator
• Consider Parenting Contract to run along ABC

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ASBOS

• Stand Alone ASBOs
• Referred through the monthly ASB Panel meeting
• Shortcuts for ex-parte applications and urgent
  interims
• Court service level agreement fortnightly ASBO
  court and and in court day after notification to
  court for ex-parte.

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Post conviction ASBOs

• Applied for by CPS normally at the request of
  the CPS although also achieved through
  prosecutions through Council legal services for
  noise nuisance etc.,
• Monitored by units panel meeting and Police
  officer.

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Premise Closure Orders

• Police Action
• Unit manage the process setting up the
  multi-agency meeting to agree a course of action.
• Unit will take on the case management and
  prosecution of the crack house
• Process in place for urgent actions.

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Dispersal areas

• Section 30 applies where a relevant officer has
  reasonable grounds for believing-
• That any members of the public have been
  intimidated, harassed, alarmed or distressed as a
  result of the presence or behaviour of groups of
  two or more persons in public places in any
  locality in his Police area and
• That the anti social behaviour is significant and
  persistent problem in the relevant area

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Legal and Evidential Requirements Dispersal
Areas

• Unit will manage the multi agency meeting and
  process- linking in with all appropriate agencies
  to discuss the application and decide on a course
  of action