Anti-social behaviour relating to young people in the city centre focusing on the Haymarket, Castle Quarter and Chapelfield Gardens.

To address this priority, we are:
- Increasing plain clothed and uniformed foot patrols significantly in the city centre, focussing on open spaces and city parks.
- Arrested and charged a number of people related to youth violence incidents in Norwich.
- Taking positive action to address issues reported to us and have used proactive measures such as dispersal notices and stop searches to prevent offending.
- 19 positive stop searches conducted between end of March to beginning of May which resulted in six arrests.
- Working with partners to provide early intervention and better engagement with groups of youths.

Continue to tackle street drinking across the city council area including enforcement of the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO).

To address this priority, we have carried out the below:

- A number of persistent offenders have been added to our ASB escalation model (issued with Community Protection Warnings), being issued warnings and notices. Some of these individuals have been arrested and are being put before the courts. and again.
- We continue to focus proactive patrols in the Haymarket and other hotspots areas where we see street drinking.
- Criminal Behaviour Orders have been given to prolific street drinkers in the last couple of months.
- We’ve worked with partners at Norwich City Council to address the ASB and manage the quality of life issues posed by people in Ber Street garden, including making arrests and utilising ASB dispersal powers.
- Enforcing the Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) to tackle issues caused by drinking alcohol in public spaces. which empowers officers to ask individuals to stop drinking if their behaviour is anti-social and to confiscate alcohol from those causing disturbances.
- Engaging with the local businesses
- Targeting anti-social behaviour repeat offenders
- Issuing of Section 35 dispersal notices which provides the power to exclude a person from an area for a period of up to 48 hours.
- Licensed premises visits and engagement

Please report any anti-social behaviour or crime to us by calling 101 or using the reporting tool on the Norfolk Police website. Always call 999 in an emergency or for a crime in progress.

Continue to prioritise Operation Focus patrols in areas identified for anti-social behaviour and serious violence.

To address this priority, we are/have:
- Targeted action impact weeks carried out in September, October and December to target street drinking and ASB.
- Carrying out daily high visibility foot patrols across the city, focusing on areas that see particularly more reports of ASB such as city parks and open spaces.
- Numerous warnings have been given for begging alongside Community Protection Warnings.
- Working with local businesses and partners to understand issues in the hotspot areas and look at ways of partnership working.
We encourage you to report any anti-social behaviour by reporting on the Norfolk Police website.