ASB Flashcards
What is the definition of anti-social behaviour?
Behaviour by a person which causes, or is likely to cause, harassment, alarm or distress to one or more other persons not of the same household as the person
What is the MPS’ approach to ASB?
- Reduce the risk, harm and long-term demand associated with ASB through partnership orientated problem solving.
- Improve public confidence through effective engagement and by reducing the impact of ASB in their local area.
- Reduce the number of repeat victims and offenders.
Why is it important to address ASB?
Failing to deal with ASB effectively has a negative impact on the public’s confidence and satisfaction levels with the Met, and potentially leads to increase in crime.
What are the 3 categories of ASB?
Personal - Personal incidents are incidents deliberately targeted at a particular individual or group or that have an impact on an individual or group rather than the community at large
Nuisance - Nuisances are acts, things or persons that cause trouble, annoyance, inconvenience, offence or suffering to the local community in general rather than to individual victims.
Environmental - Environmental ASB includes incidents where individuals and groups have an impact on their surroundings, including natural, built and social environments. This category is about encouraging reasonable behaviour whilst managing and protecting these various environments so that people can enjoy their own private spaces as well as shared or public areas.
What is AirSpace?
An ASB report is created under AirSpace when there is more than one occurrence
What are the main functions of AirSpace?
- Recording and case management of ASB via VASB (Victim offender Location Time approach to ASB).
- Taskings.
- AirSpace Community Engagement (ACE).
- Operations functions, including Daily Deployment Plan (DDP) - Indicating where to deploy patrols.
VAF
Vulnerability assessment framework
Who is responsible for managing and maintaining contact with the victims of ongoing ASB?
Safer neighbourhoods teams (SNT)
What is the Airspace VASB?
The VASB system provides a snapshot of the ongoing problem within the overview screen, including when the victim was last contacted, when it was last updated, and when the problem was last supervised.
VASB also enables you to link further CADs (original messages to Met CC) and further VA3357s to the existing problem to eliminate duplication and keep efforts focused on one incident.
What informal ways are there of tacking ASB?
Verbal warnings - You must make it clear to the individual what behaviour is causing the issue and what effect it is having on the victim or community. Your warning should outline the further consequences if they don’t comply.
Written warnings - As with a verbal warning, a written warning should contain specifics about what behaviour has occurred and why it is unacceptable, including the impact on any victims or the local community. Local agencies, if involved, should be made aware that the warning has been given so that they can further monitor the people involved and be sighted on police action. This information can be cited at court later if the situation escalates
What are community resolutions?
Community resolutions are informal agreements between offenders and victims that aim to avoid any progression through the courts.
A community resolution may be used with both youth and adult perpetrators, allowing the police to deal more proportionately with lower level crime and anti-social behaviour in a timely and transparent manner. They take into account the needs of the victim, perpetrator and wider community.
Community resolutions are primarily aimed at first time perpetrators where genuine remorse has been expressed, and where an out-of-court disposal is more appropriate than taking more formal action. They can help to reduce reoffending by encouraging perpetrators to consider the impact of their behaviour and to take responsibility for their actions.
What is a mediation?
Mediation is a successful but often underused tool that brings both the perpetrator and victim together to produce a resolution. It can be very effective in disputes between neighbours, family conflicts, lifestyle differences such as noise nuisance complaints and situations where it is difficult to identify the victim and the perpetrator.
ABC
Acceptance behaviour contract
What is an acceptance behaviour contract?
ABCs are written agreements made between a perpetrator of anti-social behaviour and the agency or agencies acting locally to prevent that behaviour. The terms of an ABC can be discussed with the perpetrator before they are drafted and signed to encourage compliance.
There is no formal sanction associated with refusing to sign an ABC, so if an individual does not wish to sign, they cannot be forced to do so. However, refusal to sign an ABC may persuade a court that only a civil injunction or a criminal behaviour order will prevent the anti-social behaviour.
While there are no formal sanctions associated with breaching the conditions of an ABC, agencies should consider further steps if the individual does not change their behaviour. The consequences for failing to comply should be made clear in the ABC.
In cases where court proceedings are subsequently necessary, the work undertaken as part of drafting an ABC can form part of the evidence pack.
What is a parenting contract?
Where informal interventions are used against under 18s, the parents or guardians of the young person should be contacted in advance. In many cases, the parents or guardians can play an important role in ensuring the individual changes their behaviour.
Parenting Contracts are similar to ABCs, but are signed by the parent or guardian. They can also be considered where the child in question is under 10 and other interventions are not appropriate.
