Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)

Anti-Social Behaviour came out as a second priority in our surveys. ASB impacts on people’s lives and can be extremely personal. We are committed to supporting the community and tackling this head on.

The force operation for ASB is Operation Relentless. You will see this mentioned on many of our social media posts.
The NPT Inspector chairs a monthly ASB Intelligence meeting with stakeholders from mental health teams, schools, housing, and council colleagues (to name a few) to discuss problems and investigate partnership solutions. It identifies who is the best placed agency to manage the problems. We identify opportunities for multi-partnership interventions, education into schools and targeted visits between housing, police, and ASB teams.
The team have received bespoke training in maximising the intelligence systems, to clearly identify hotspot locations. This then informs their patrols. These are intelligence led and with a purpose to be in the right area at the right time. We will also maximise our opportunities with engagement activity to gather your opinions, information and help shape our work.
Our hotspot areas are subject of reviews and the team complete plans to set objectives around reduction of incidents of ASB. The results are proving successful, and we have had some positive reductions in some of our key locations. I would urge you to follow us on social media to see how this is delivered.
Identified persons bringing misery to our communities will be dealt with in conjunction with the ASB team from BCP Council to signpost offenders through the agreed escalation processes. We continue to deploy alongside BCP in partnership patrols in Poole. BCP Council supports this approach through the deployment of Community Safety Patrol Officers (CSAS). These officers work with NPT and participate in joint briefings to understand the problems and a joint response. We use these opportunities to identify those repeat callers and look to support those suffering from this behaviour. We work extremely closely with the dedicated ASB Officer from BCP Council to problem solve and enforce.

Drugs

Drug Dealing came out top in the concerns raised most recently in our priority surveys. As a team we understand that this has a detrimental impact on the local community, often it involves exploitation and vulnerability. The team are on top of the intelligence picture in Poole and we regularly task out work from this.
Poole NPT are committed to trying to tackle this issue. Our response is based around scanning to understand what is happening, analysis of the problem (who, why, where, when and how), together with a response and then a period of assessment to see whether this was successful or otherwise.

We understand that the links between drugs, crime, and anti-social behaviour (ASB). Through Dorset Police’s Operation Viper our response is coordinated to tackle the issues. We will relentlessly pursue those who drug deal in our communities. We will also look to signpost individuals for support to tackle their addiction. We also work with our Safer Schools Team to try and deter addiction from an early age. St Mungo’s to support the street homeless community who are also vulnerable to substance abuse and targeting by dealers.
We will highlight areas of concern and look for wider support from across the force, where needed. We work with the Neighbourhood Enforcement Team (NET) to address matters that concerns that community. We will utilise our powers under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to close premises which meet the given thresholds to bring respite to the community. This work also extends to collaboration with the BCP ASB Team to utilise civil orders to help problem solve. We will use policing powers, such as stop and search, effectively and will maintain our legitimacy whilst doing so. We wear body worn video and review interactions through scrutiny panels and use of force.
We encourage anyone with concerns to report these through to us via this website. We use this to build information to obtain warrants, inform our targeted patrols and bring offenders to justice.