Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy and Minimum Standards

Councils and Police are required by law to do all that they can to tackle crime and disorder problems in their area.

Every three years Wirral’s Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) - now known as the Community Safety Partnership (CSP) - produces a strategy to prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour. The CSP is a partnership of key agencies involved in tackling crime and disorder and improving community safety, involving elected members and members of the public. The CSP is committed to building upon existing work to tackle anti-social behaviour to deliver its vision of making Wirral a safer place to live, work and visit.

The Anti Social Behaviour Strategy is available to download from this page.  Updates of the plan are also available from:
The people of Wirral were asked through a variety of means what the crime and anti-social behaviour priorities were that they wished the CSP to focus upon. All the responses were collated and analysed and show the community’s top five priorities for 2009/10 to reduce crime and disorder to be:
  1. ASB caused by groups of youths gathering in public places;
  2. Inappropriate use of alcohol by young people;
  3. Unlawful damage to people’s property (criminal damage);
  4. Anti-social use of vehicles;
  5. Illegal use of drugs

Wirral’s Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy (2009-2012) sets out how agencies work together at both a strategic and operational level to prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour. The Strategy also sets out the objectives it seeks to achieve to further prevent and tackle anti-social behaviour. A separate Action Plan is periodically updated as these objectives are progressed. An Equality Impact Assessment of Wirral’s Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy has been completed.

The CSP has committed to a set of Minimum Standards related to anti-social behaviour. These set out what service the public can expect when they report anti-social behaviour.

Whilst incidents of anti-social behaviour are not compared nationally area by area, the Home Office operated an Anti-Social Behaviour Action website that compared the use of tools and powers used by individual Community Safety Partnership areas to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Following the change of government this web site has been archived, however the comparison document can be downloaded from the Anti-Social Behaviour Action archived pages. Scroll down and download the pdf document titled ASB Action for 2003-March 2009.