[joeysteele]

It sounds on the surface an administrative nightmare for the Police. However,I believe a lot of discretion is going to be left as to what the Police themselves think should be done in such circumstances,which is part of the good bits as to this proposal.

The problems with neighbours can often though be a problem that the Police should not be involved in an any event, for instance, I have my pet dog, a Staffie, with me while at Uni, he stays with me in the house I share with other students,he is well behaved and never out without me and on a harness and lead.

Some neighbours though, reported that there was a dangerous dog at the house only from looking at him,the Police came but were very apologetic to me after they saw him,we have a 6 foot fence all round the garden, this was though prejudiced,interfering neighbours just wanting to cause bother because there are students,(who they also didn't like) living in the house and also that they didn't like Staffie dogs.
The Police were brilliant and we joked a bit about it but there was a classic waste of police time. If you have neighbours falling out the slightest thing they see as wrong in their eyes,they will be reporting it to the Police who will have to now come out and deal with something or nothing.
It turned out they reported him for going for them as they passed the back garden in a cut there is there,what he did was bark once behind the 6 foot fence as they went past as he was playing with a boom ball he has.There are narrow gaps in the fence between the posts and they had peered in and seen he was a Staffie. He'd actually done nothing towards them at all.
As I say the Police were great about it all and really apologised to me but where will they have the time to deal with this kind of nonsense and prejudice too against dogs and students.

I agree ASBOS are useless, people do see them as earned medals but this new plan seems to have flaws too.It is worth a try though,see how it goes in the selected places for trial but I can see this causing big problems for the already overstretched Police force.
ASBOS need replacing definately,I agree with the Govt on that, I am not sure this is the way forward though

Theresa May,is likely one of the worst Home Secretary's there will ever have been,she is a walking disaster.This lady really needs to be moved from this high position or go herself.