Council marking Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week
03 Jul 2023 ARCHIVED (over 3 months old) - view latest news
Northumberland County Council is highlighting its commitment to tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) and making local communities safer by joining the national ASB Awareness Week campaign, which runs from 3-9 July.
The campaign is designed to encourage people to make a stand against crime, while shining a light on the experiences of victims and the support available via councils, partnerships groups and the police.
Anti-social behaviour is behaviour that is likely to cause alarm, harassment or distress. It can be personal such as violence or threatening behaviour. It can be community based, for example street drinking, noise nuisance, vehicle disorder, or it can be environmental, including fly-tipping and graffiti.
Children playing balls games, badly parked vehicles, use of personal CCTV systems and groups of young people in streets or parks (unless they are being abusive or committing other crimes) are not classed as Anti Social Behaviour.
Northumberland County Council has an ASB team and a community safety team that work to ensure residents and tenants feel safe in their home and neighbourhood.
As part of ASB Awareness Week officers from Community Safety and Neighbourhood Police teams are going into schools to talk to students about Anti social behaviour, how avoid being involved in it and how to report it in confidence, if they have issues themselves.
Northumberland County Councilor, Gordon Stewart, cabinet member for Looking After Our Communities said: “Northumberland is a beautiful county and we want to ensure the quality of life here is continually improved.
“The county council & Northumbria Police are committed to supporting victims of ASB and recognise that repeated incidents can have a detrimental impact on residents’ everyday lives. We have dedicated teams working in partnership to resolve incidents of ASB and to ensure that people living in Northumberland can enjoy their homes and communities free from this behaviour.
“ We hope that by raising awareness of what ASB is and the different routes on how to report it, we can work together to make our communities safer.”
Organised by community safety specialists Resolve, ASB Awareness Week is being backed by the Home Office, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), Local Government Association (LGA), National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the National Fire Chiefs’ Council (NFCC).
How to report Anti-Social Behaviour
If you feel you are the victim or have witnessed ASB in your community there are a number of ways you can report it, in confidence.
- Ring Northumberland County Council on 0345 600 6400
- Via Northumbria Police: beta.northumbria.police.uk
- You can also call 101 (for non-urgent crime) at any time of the day or night
- In an emergency always dial 999
If you have already reported Anti-Social Behaviour, you may request a formal review of your case if the victim is considered to be ‘high risk’ or if three complaints have been made in the last 6 months.
Or ring: 0191 221 9800
This is not a complaint process and should not be used to report ASB in the first instance.