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Anti-Social Behaviour

Introduction:

• New ASB tools and powers
• Council’s ASB & Statutory Nuisance Team
• Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP)

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Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

New tools and powers:

• ASB Case Review/Community Trigger
• Allows dissatisfied complainants to have their case reviewed
• Threshold of 3 reports in the past 12 months
• Application can be made on their behalf by friend, councillor, MP
• Civil Injunction – ASBO replacement
• Heard at a Civil court
• Positive requirements can be included in any injunction issued
• Breach is a contempt of court
• Criminal Behaviour Order – ASBO on conviction replacement
• The ASB does not have to relate to the conviction
• Breach is a criminal offence

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Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

New tools and powers (continued):

• Community Protection Notice (CPN)
• For persistent, unreasonable behaviour, detrimental to QOL in a

locality

• Issued by Council, police or social landlord
• Written warning to request behaviour ceases – person or business
• Community Protection Notice may be issued including requirement

to do things or stop doing things

• Breach is a criminal offence - £100 Fixed Penalty Notice

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Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014

New tools and powers (continued):

• Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO):
• Issued by a Council Breach in consultation with the public,

landowners, relevant bodies, police and PCC

• Replaces Designated Public Place Orders (alcohol restriction

areas), Dog Control Orders, and Gating Orders

• For persistent, unreasonable behaviour, detrimental to QOL in a

locality

• Can be a blanket requirement or relate to activities in a certain area
• Breach is a criminal offence - £100 Fixed Penalty Notice

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Dog Control Orders

• Four Dog Control Orders made:
• Dog Fouling
• Dog Exclusion Zones for enclosed children's play areas
• Dogs on Leads for main roads, cemeteries, marked sports pitches
• Dogs on Lead by direction of authorised officer for nuisance dogs
• Approximately 45 officers trained to enforce
• Dog Wardens carry out education and enforcement visits
• Breach is a criminal offence - £80 Fixed Penalty Notice
• 8 Fixed Penalty Notices paid, 3 issued awaiting payment, 1 legal

case pending

• New appeals procedure introduced April 2016
• Full information on Council website

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ASB & Statutory Nuisance Team

2 x ASB Officers:

• Nuisance neighbours;
• Rowdy / inconsiderate behaviour;
• Street drinking;
• ASBRAC and PSG.

3 x Environmental Protection Officers :

• Statutory Nuisance, noise, light, odour;
• Fly tipping – prosecutions, fly tipping on private land;
• Fixed Penalty Notices – Fly tipping, Littering, Dog Control Orders, Waste issues;
• Nuisance vehicles – repairing on road, for sale.

1 x Support Officer:

• First point of contact;
• Register and assign cases;
• Manage noise nuisance cases until active monitoring stage;
• Administration and ordering for the team.

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ASBRAC & PSGs

Anti-Social Behaviour Risk Assessment Conference:

• For victims of ASB;
• Held once a month;
• All partners and agencies invited to discuss how to support the victim;
• Action plan formulated.

Problem Solving Group:

• Appropriate partners and agencies invited to discuss a case;
• Action plan formulated.

Any agency can refer a case to ASBRAC or request a PSG.

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Fly-tipping

All fly-tipping cases reported to CBC

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1804 2195 3066 3194

Cases referred to ASB & Statutory Nuisance Team

90

Data in calendar years

117 162 230 105 to 17/05/16

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The blight on our landscape

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The blight on our landscape

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The blight on our landscape

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Fly-tipping investigation

• Reported to waste;
• Referred to ASB & SN if there is evidence, a witness or it

is on private land;

• Secure evidence;
• Obtain statement;
• DVLA or Council Tax check;
• Invite for PACE;
• Act on information;
• Prepare file for Legal as necessary;
• Action taken.

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Fly-tipping prosecutions

Fly-tipping 2015 2016

• No. of prosecutions

8 1 Fines total £4730 £800

• No. of simple cautions

3 Files pending

Data in calendar years

4

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New Fixed Penalty Notice

Section 33 of EPA 1990 – Fly-tipping:

• Maximum fine £50,000 or custodial sentence.

Section 33ZA – New Fixed Penalty Notice:

• £300 fine for small scale fly-tipping;
• £200 discount for early payment.

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Section 34 – Duty of Care

Section 34 of EPA 1990 – Duty of Care:

• Maximum £5,000 fine

New campaign:

• New leaflet being produced;
• Attendance at Community Engagement Days;
• Communications campaign.

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Littering

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Littering

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Littering

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Littering

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Littering

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Littering – Income from Fixed Penalty Notices and prosecution fines

Littering – 2014 - 2016

£50 £80 Prosecution Total issued 2014

16 3 1 19 Total £800 £240 £400

2015

31 3 1 35 Total £1550 £240 £400

2016

19 1 22 (2 pending) Total

Data in calendar years

£950 £80

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ASB & Stat. Nuisance Team – Procedure for Noise Nuisance

• Contact complainant…
• First stage letters sent…
• Further complaints?
• Diary sheets…
• Diary sheets not returned… case closed
• Diary sheets returned…
• Diary sheets assessed…
• Possible NME (waiting list) and officer to witness…
• Analysis of NME recordings…
• Action taken if necessary.

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Anti-Social Behaviour – other cases being managed by team

2014 2015 2016 Nuisance neighbours 55 74 54 Rowdy Inconsiderate Behaviour 27 45 42 Street Drinking

Data in calendar years

2 5

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Tacking nuisance street drinking – CSP priority

Dunstable Town Centre

• Persistent problem in Priory Gardens and nearby areas
• Multi-agency working with police, P2R, town council and CCTV
• 12 CPN Warnings served
• 3 CPN Notices issued – exclusion orders
• 1 prosecution file prepared for breach of a CPN

Leighton Buzzard Town Centre

• Persistent problem in High Street near market cross
• 5 CPN Warnings served
• 2 CPN Notices issued – exclusion ordersUpda
• 1 prosecution for 5 breaches of the Notice - £1500 fine

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Community Alcohol Partnerships

• Tackles alcohol misuse in local communities through co-
• peration between alcohol retailers, licensees and local

stakeholders

• Supports local communities to develop their own capacity

to deliver a localised and co-ordinated response to alcohol misuse

• Encourages local partnership to tackle alcohol misuse and

associated ASB

• Focuses on long term solutions

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Benefits of CAP

• Provision of a CAP Co-ordinator to liaise between the

local CAP and retailers

• Access to national funding
• Partnership working – reduces silo working, improves

efficiency

• Long term solutions – wider than enforcement
• Community involvement

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Pilot area

• Biggleswade – based on data and surveys
• 100th CAP nationally
• Partners engaged include:
• Bedfordshire Police
• Trading Standards
• Community Safety
• Adult Safeguarding
• Children’s Services
• Bedfordshire Fire & Rescue Service
• Biggleswade Town Council
• Stratton Upper School
• East London Foundation Trust
• CAN YP
• Local retailers
• Local community groups

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Actions to date

• Local retailers to receive training free of charge on how to

sell alcohol responsibly

• Education sessions for young people and parents at local

school

• Provision of outreach service for adults with substance

misuse issues in Biggleswade

• Training on “brief intervention” to professionals

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Expected outcomes

• Reduction in the sale of alcohol to under 18s
• Reduction in proxy sales
• Reduction in alcohol related crime and disorder
• Improved alcohol education to young people
• Health improvements to individuals in Biggleswade
• Reduced incidents of street drinking
• Increase support to street drinkers – including support via treatment services
• A reduction in demand on police resources
• A reduction in ambulance call outs to alcohol related incidents
• Increased local residents’ perceptions of safety and well being
• A strengthened relationship between authorities, local retailers and the

community