Community Protection Notice (Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014)
Community Protection Notice
(ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, CRIME AND POLICING ACT 2014)
An authorised person may issue a community protection notice to an individual aged 16 or over, or a body, if satisfied on reasonable grounds that
(i) the conduct of the individual or body is having a detrimental effect, of a persistent or continuing nature, on the quality of life of those in the locality; and
(ii) the conduct is unreasonable.
A community protection notice may be issued by a constable, the relevant local authority, or a person designated by the relevant local authority for the purposes of this section. A community protection notice imposes any of the following requirements on the individual or body issued with it:
a) A requirement to stop doing specified things
b) A requirement to do specified things
c) A requirement to take reasonable steps to achieve specified results.
They can only be issued if the offender has been given a written warning that the notice will be issued if their conduct doesn’t change and that they have been given enough time to have reasonably made those changes, and yet have chosen not to do so.
A person issued with a community protection notice who fails to comply with it commits an offence.
Example
Examples include an individual who regularly allows their dog to foul a communal garden and a group regularly taking the same route home late at night whilst drunk, making noise and waking their neighbours (neither of these incidents of persistent ASB had been covered by previous legislation).