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Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Yahoo
Authority plans anti-social behaviour clampdown
A plan to clampdown on anti-social behaviour in a town, including aggressive begging and street drinking, could be rolled out if backed by councillors. Reading council wants to introduce a borough-wide public spaces protection order (PSPO), which the authority said will make it easier to stop nuisance and is supported by police. It said it knew of 116 reports of aggressive begging in the Berkshire town between June and December last year, with a "very small cohort" of people regularly targeting vulnerable people for money. The borough council said it has learned from using a PSPO between 2018 and 2021, which it said was "not as effective as had been hoped" because of a lack of enforcement. It said "problematic street drinking" is "prevalent" across the town and that the PSPO would help council staff and police enforce rules on street drinking which they are currently "unable to do". The order would also help the council stop and prevent dog fouling across Reading's 20 parks and other informal open spaces, the authority said. It said it would use it as an "additional tool" to stop anti-social behaviour and would be used first as a "preventative measure…to request that the behaviour is stopped before a breach occurs". The council hopes the anti-social use of e-scooters and e-bikes – which it said is the "most commonly complained about issue across the borough – could also be alleviated by the PSPO. Councillors will be asked for their opinions on the potential rollout at a meeting on Wednesday. If approved, a consultation on the measures could start on 21 July, with feedback with the police potentially completed by the end of October. A report could be referred back to councillors by mid-November. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook and X. Designs for town's new central library released New replacement driving test centre set to open Town centre offices to be converted into flats Jane Austen plaque installed at former school Reading Borough Council
BBC News
10-06-2025
- BBC News
Anti-social behaviour crackdown across Tavistock and Okehampton
An order to tackle alcohol related anti-social behaviour has been introduced in two Devon and Cornwall Police said Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO) had been introduced at Okehampton and Tavistock by West Devon Borough force said the orders allowed officers to disperse people causing a nuisance or disorder, and would also give them the power to remove alcohol from people drinking on the Thomas Ottley, neighbourhood policing sergeant for west Devon, said anti-social behaviour was an "outstanding issue" for the community. An 'outstanding issue' The force said there had been 104 anti-social behaviour incidents in Tavistock between April 2023 and March 2024, 66 fewer than between April 2019 and March Ottley said previous PSPOs, which only covered The Meadows, drove drinking and anti-social behaviour further into the town."We conducted some consultation with the public, last summer we put out lots of surveys asking what issues were impacting them, where they lived, where they worked," he said."Anti-social behaviour was by far the outstanding issue for everyone." He said the new order was town-wide and would enable officers to be consistent in tackling anti-social behaviour."Street drinking was an issue, we targeted the individuals that were perpetrating that," he said,"This is a preventative measure, this isn't in response to a wave of crime."This is a generalised response to what people in the community are concerned about, and future-proofing and keeping it a nice town, and Okehampton of course."
