Dealing with ASB in a more productive way that means results.

It is has been a day of catching up on Paper work. The team has been proactively targeting those engaging in Anti-Social behaviour during the last 4 months. We have put together a working list of those engaging in the behaviour and have begun to target those most prolific of nuisances.

This is low-level crime and the courts will not send people to jail for begging or such and nor should they, but when that begging is menacing or aggressive we need to act. The same with drunken disorderly behaviour, as a one off, they will sleep it off in the cell and get sentenced to time served by the court- meaning that their over night spell in our cells is the sentence itself.

Yet when this drunkenness is daily and disrupting the lives and businesses of our ward , the emphasis is again on us to do more.

So for much of today I have been processing the CPWs and CPNS that we have issued and ensured that the paperwork for these are all in order. It is a lot of paper work, and anyone who knows me, knows this is not my strength.

It does work though, those of you who have been following us, will be aware that earlier this year we successfully applied for a Criminal Behaviour Order for a male who was constantly drunk and causing issues in the Town Centre. He was arrested for breaching that and is currently awaiting sentence on remand.

I have asked Co-pilot to make a illustration to explain the process and it is working. We have currently more than a dozen subjects at various steps along the process. It is our hope that they will not need to move on to the next step, but for some they will.

It is very cold at the moment and so the Local Authority is opening its emergency shelters, so we are seeing less foot traffic as a result.