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The definition of anti-social behaviour in Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 – “behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harrassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrator”. Anti-social behaviour (ASB) can therefore cover a wide range of activities, from those that cause minor nuisance or irritation to major incidents of harrassment, threats or actual acts of violence. Individual incidents of ASB may be dealt with by means of Warning Letters, ABCs and ASBOs. If you feel affected by ASB please contact Kully Takhar on 01789 260123 kully.takhar@stratford-dc.gov.uk or your local CBO/PCSO. If you have any information or have witnessed the above incidents, please can you contact Alcester Police on 01789 762207. Thank you. All to note a Public Service Desk at Headquarters is now operational. The Public Service Desk (PSD) is designed to put Police Officers back in the control room, thus enabling a better service delivery to members of the public wishing to speak to a Police Officer on any matter which does not necessarily need Police deployment. Anybody wishing to speak to the Police about any issue that does not require a Police Officer to attend can do so via this Desk. Contacting any of the Police station telephone numbers will direct you to the switchboard where you can then ask for the Public Service Desk. We are often asked the best way to report an incident or to make contact with a Police officer. Should a member of the public witness or be affected by a crime whereby there is a threat of injury, injury or damage or theft of property and the incident is ongoing and offenders are still at the scene, they should ring 999, classed as an emergency or an immediate response incident. Should the incident have already occurred and is not ongoing, for example waking up and find your car has been broken into, you should ring one of the normal Police station numbers and ask to report a crime or an incident. You will be put through to the force control room or the crime desk. Please ask for an ‘incident number’ – you should be given one. If a crime has been committed against you, you will be given a crime reference number by the crime desk or by the officer who attends the incident. Such incidents are ‘managed’ and you should be given an indication of when an officer can attend. If you wish to speak to an officer about a non-urgent matter, please use the list of contacts, which are always included in our newsletters. Hopefully the Public Help Desk will help members of the public when they wish to speak to the Police.