More Partnership Working Could Help Tackle ASB

Greater knowledge of social housing powers and more partnership working could improve the effectiveness of police handling of anti-social behaviour cases, a report has found.  The report, Focus on the victim: summary report on the ASB call handling trials, summarised the findings of eight police forces which trialled new approaches to handling calls from the public to ensure repeat and vulnerable victims of anti-social behaviour are identified and prioritised more effectively.  The forces which volunteered for the trials – Avon and Somerset, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Metropolitan, Sussex, West Mercia and South Wales – designed their own projects in a bid to improve cross-agency work.  Download a copy of the report – and a copy of each report from the forces involved - from the Home Office website.