Asbo replacement orders to be announced by government

The plans are expected to include a new "community trigger", which would force the police, councils and other agencies to act after several complaints.
The government says the new measures will be simpler and more flexible than current powers for tackling problems.

Labour said the measures were a "weaker rebrand" of powers to tackle the issue.
The proposals mark the most far-reaching reforms of measures to deal with anti-social behaviour since the introduction of Asbos (anti-social behaviour orders) in the late 1990s.
Home Secretary Theresa May told BBC Breakfast that Asbos were "too bureaucratic" and took too long to put into place.

She said the government wanted to reduce the number of different orders from 19 to six and make them "more flexible, easier, quicker to put into place".
"We're going to look at enabling the community or individuals... to say to the police or local authority 'excuse me, you've got to do something'," she said.

"For most people, if they report something once, then they want something done about it - but it's about getting the balance right."

Mrs May said too many people's lives were being blighted by anti-social behaviour.
"The government will actually do its bit to help by... making things much more flexible, much easier, much quicker to put into place so the police and local authorities will have the tools that they need to respond to what is going wrong at their local level."

End to Asbos The Home Office first signalled an end to Asbos at the start of last year.
It believes the orders are seen by some youths as a badge of honour and it has pointed out that more than half are breached at least once.

Among the proposals to be published in a government White Paper later are establishing criminal behaviour orders, which would be used to prevent convicted criminals from engaging in particular activities or going to certain places.

Vicki Helyar-Cardwell Director, Criminal Justice Alliance

"I had graffiti all over the front of my house calling me a scumbag," said Mary Armstrong, chairwoman of the Irk Valley Residents' Association. 

"I had nine cars trashed - four of them had to be written off."
Since then, the residents have started schemes to improve the area which have helped to build community pride.

And while Asbos were vital in stopping problems like violence and vandalism, often that took time.
Mary Armstrong believes the new measures need to stop people from causing trouble a lot more quickly.
"If you have got somebody causing anti-social behaviour and they think nobody is going to do anything about that, then that is fuel for them," she Read More