Half of Shropshire Asbos are breached
Tuesday 25th January 2011, 2:22PM GMT.
More than half of the anti-social behaviour orders being issued by courts in Shropshire are being breached, new Home Office figures reveal today.
And they show that police are using them on fewer occasions to tackle troublemakers.
A total of 46 orders were slapped on yobs in the West Mercia area in 2009 – down from 65 the previous year.
Some 23 orders were breached at least once during the same period, with 155 breaches in total.
Across England and Wales 1,671 orders were issued during the 12 months – down 2,027 – and 6,458 breaches recorded – 1,133 at least once.
A government review into Asbos is set to be completed within months.
It follows an announcement by Home Secretary Theresa May last summer that the orders were to be scrapped because of a drop in use and a record number of breaches.
She accused the previous government of introducing a “ludicrous list” of sanctions to tackle anti-social behaviour, among them the Iso (individual support order), the Asbi (anti-social behaviour injunction), the Crasbo (criminal anti-social behaviour order), crack house closure orders, litter and noise abatement orders, dog control orders, housing injunctions and parenting orders.
Mrs May said it was “time to move beyond the Asbo” with simpler sanctions that were “rehabilitating and restorative rather than criminalising and coercive”.
Commenting on the latest statistics, a Home Office spokeswoman said: “As the Home Secretary has said, the current tools and powers for dealing with anti-social behaviour are too bureaucratic and don’t work effectively.
“These statistics on Asbos, for example, show that 56 per cent of those issued have been breached, many more than once.
“We will soon be consulting on new proposals.”
By London Reporter Sunita Patel
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