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Anti-social behaviour
Everybody has the right to live in a clean and safe
environment. Members of Medway's Community Safety Partnership work hard
to make sure that this happens.
What is anti-social behaviour?
There are many types of anti-social behaviour and Medway Council
has several different ways of dealing with it.
If a crime is being committed, the police should always
be contacted first
You should dial 999* when:
- life is threatened;
- people are injured;
- a crime is in progress;
- offenders are nearby.
* You should only dial 999 when you need
immediate help. If you use a mobile phone to dial
999, tell the operator at once where you are
phoning from, so that your call can be dealt with by the local
police.
You should call your local police station
when:
- there is no immediate danger to life;
- the crime is not in progress and the offender is not
nearby.
Examples of non-urgent incidents that should be reported in this
way are:
- a stolen bicycle;
- a car that has been deliberately damaged;
- finding stolen property;
- a minor traffic accident.
To report a non-urgent incident in the Medway area phone
101 - the new national non-emergency number for police
forces across England and Wales. These calls are charged
at local rate and are answered by the Kent Police Force
Communications Centre in Maidstone. You will be diverted to the
person best able to respond to your call.
It is important that phone lines handling 999 calls are kept
free for emergencies, such as when life is in danger or a
crime is in progress. If you call 999 when the situation is not
urgent, it could take longer for a person in a real emergency to
get the help they need.
Only around 60 per cent of the 999 calls made each year are real
emergencies needing an immediate response.
If you call 999 and the situation is not urgent, your call will
be directed to your local police station.
Non-criminal anti-social behaviour
Problems such as:
- youth nuisance
- under-age drinking
- graffiti
- verbal abuse;
should be reported to the council's Community Team
Co-ordinator on 01634 338131.
Problems such as:
should be reported to the Medway Community Officers on
01634 333333.
Problems such as:
should be reported to the Environmental Enforcement Team on 01634
333333.
If council or social housing tenants are behaving anti-socially,
the landlord can take them to court and ask that they are evicted
from their home. A tenancy agreement is a legally binding document
and if the terms of the agreement are broken, landlords can apply
to the courts to have tenants evicted.
Download Medway
Community Safety Partnership's anti-social behaviour pledge
(pdf 224KB). To use this file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have it on your computer, please use the advice
page.
Tenants are also responsible for the behaviour of their children
and any person visiting their homes. The council and social housing
landlords have no wish to 
evict
anyone but will take action against tenants who have no
consideration for the wellbeing of the communities in which they
live.
The partnership works very closely with the police to try to
reduce incidents of anti-social behaviour but relies heavily on
co-operation from tenants and leaseholders. If there are problems
in an area, witnesses may be asked to assist it in helping to
identify the people causing the problems.
It is very important that local people help the partnership to
keep their community clean and safe.
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