The Draft Anti-social Behaviour Bill

Download or read book The Draft Anti-social Behaviour Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The draft Anti-Social Behaviour Bill was published on 13 December 2012 (Cm.8495, ISBN 9780101849524). It is the Government's intention to tidy up the tool-kit for dealing with anti-social behaviour (ASB) and to involve victims and communities more directly in dealing with the problems. The Committee found the following: (i) Rationalising the number of anti-social behaviour (ASB) powers is welcome; (ii) Key elements necessary to tackle ASB are missing: good inter-agency working, intelligent information sharing and a network of services; (iii) The move away from automatic criminalisation for breach of an Injunction is positive, but the powers are far too wide; (iv) The "Community Remedy" must not "become the modern pillory or stocks": officers must have the discretion to choose alternative disposals; (v) The "Community Trigger" will not be effective against persistent ASB unless there is a national limit on the number of complaints that can be made before action is taken. The Committee recommended the following: (i) Strengthen the Community Trigger so that authorities that do not deal with ASB are identified and held to account; (ii) Set up a new National Anti-social Behaviour Forum headed by a chief constable, a housing association chief executive, and a local council leader, for a term of two years; (iii) End the arms race against Anti-social Behaviour by setting reasonable limits on the behaviour covered by the new powers.