Please find attached below the Dear Colleague letter that I have received over tackling anti-social behaviour
Dear Colleague,
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR ACTION PLAN
Tackling anti-social behaviour is an absolute priority for this Government. Everyone has the right to live without fear of facing anti-social behaviour, to leave their home without fearing intimidation, to shop in a vibrant high street free from disorder and disrepair, and to use and enjoy their parks and community spaces. The public must trust that there will be action taken when they report the intimidation and harassment they face.
Today’s publication of the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan reinforces the Government’s commitment to stamp out anti-social behaviour and restore the right of people to feel safe in, and proud of, their local area. The plan is an ambitious and wide-reaching new approach that will give Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC), local authorities, and other agencies the tools to tackle the blight of anti-social behaviour facing communities across England and Wales.
The plan sets out a radical new approach to tackling anti-social behaviour split across five key areas:
• Stronger punishment for perpetrators, cracking down on illegal drugs, evicting anti-social tenants and making perpetrators of anti-social behaviour repair the damage they inflicted on victims and communities;
• Making communities safer by increasing police presence, deploying tougher financial penalties for wrong doers, and keeping our streets orderly;
• Enhancing local pride by taking actions to revive high streets and revitalise parks and green spaces;
• Prevention and intervention through funding one million more hours of provision for young people, expanding the eligibility criteria for the Turnaround Programme,
focusing on targeted support for children most at risk and working with delivery partners on National Youth Guarantee; and
• Improving data, reporting and accountability by simplifying and improving existing reporting structures and increased accountability through better and more transparent data collection.
As part of the plan, we are funding immediate justice pilots and hotspot policing in a number of police force areas but the Action Plan makes clear they will be rolled out across England and Wales in 2024/25.
We are also launching today a targeted consultation which marks the first phase of the Community Safety Partnership review. The consultation will seek views on strengthening the accountability model of Community Safety Partnerships to align their work more closely to Police and Crime Commissioners, making sure they work together effectively to cut crime. Through the consultation, we are also seeking views on changes to the anti-social behaviour powers and tools to strengthen and broaden their use. The consultation will be published on gov.uk and will run for 8 weeks.
Tackling anti-social behaviour requires a strong and effective partnership response from all agencies working together and the measures we have outlined in the Anti-social Behaviour Action Plan give the police, local authorities and other agencies a wide range of powers and tools to deal with every situation of anti-social behaviour that may arise.
With every good wish,
Suella Braverman KC MP Michael Gove MP
Home Secretary Secretary of State for Levelling Up,
Housing and Communities & Minister for Intergovernmental Relations
March 28, 2023
Its not rocket sicence; just put more police on the beat …get them out of the office and cars and get them walking the streets again
March 28, 2023
Never mind anti-social behaviour. How about the Police following up on crimes like robbery and burglary?
My son had ÂŁ3k of tools stolen from his van last month. Reported it to the police within minutes, including description of the thieves and registration of the van they used. No action taken and nothing retrieved.
They can find the time for DEI training and Pride marches though, so let’s be grateful.
March 28, 2023
What those committing acts described as anti-social need is a better example from those at the top. Not just the bankers, and not just the social elite, but all of them, including especially those that rule us and those that make our laws. They don’t need new laws.
We should be seeing a political establishment that is beyond honest, whose very activities echo decency and totally clean ethics – but instead we see the opposite, no wonder those towards the bottom of the scale do as they do.
The way parliament acts is not with honesty or responsibility. Most MPs, with a good number of exceptions, are doing what they do to align with their own agenda, and they impose their ideology and untruths expecting us to put up with their falseness. Government is totally dishonest in the way it rules, the way it runs down the economy…… and that is but the tip of the iceberg
SO WHY SHOULD WE EXPECT THOSE WITH NO LOVE OF OUR SOCIETY TO DO ANY BETTER!
March 28, 2023
Bravo
March 28, 2023
Anti social behaviour is a generational phenomenon, today ably assisted by poor parenting, many one parent families with an absent father and the loss of religious faith. When I joined the Met in 1967 we controlled the streets, yobbery was descended upon and where necessary the courts acted with appropriate sentencing. But most of all we had the trust of the public and parents with a sense of responsibility. Today we live in a world of instant gratification, loose morals, social media judgment and little religion.
March 28, 2023
Where I live, in the Southeast of England, the police do not turn up when anti-social behaviour is reported.
You may get a visit a few days later when it will be explained that the priority is illegal immigration, etc.
To punish, you first have to catch them!