Antisocial Behaviour (ASB)

Location:
Springbourne, Bournemouth

Describe the issue & its affects:
Nuisance behaviour causing alarm and distress to the community, including along Holdenhurst Road.


What action will you take to tackle the issue:

Engagement with the community to offer reassurance and encourage reporting
Target offenders for disruption and positive action.

Issued 01 July 2026

July Update: This priority has been extended for another 3 months.
Following reports of drug dealing around Wimbledon Hall, Derby Road and Spencer Road, officers stopped a vehicle and detained a male. Following a search a quantity of Class A Drugs was recovered. The male has now been charged for drug supply offences and is awaiting trial at court.
An application for a closure on the male’s property has been submitted to the council ASB team. If successful, this will close the property for 3 months.

June Update:
- Officers arrested two males who were living on Holdenhurst Road and actively selling drugs in Boscombe Precinct. Drugs valued over £7,000, more than £1,000 cash, 6 mobile phones and multiple weapons were seized and the two males charged with multiple drugs offences and they were remanded in custody.
- Officers identified and arrested a male that committed multiple hate crimes in the area. He has been charged and given Court bail conditions whilst awaiting trial.

May update:
Officers arrested two males who were living on Holdenhurst Road and actively selling drugs in Boscombe Precinct. Drugs valued over £7,000, more than £1,000 cash, 6 mobile phones and multiple weapons were seized and the two males charged with multiple drugs offences and they were remanded in custody.
Officers identified and arrested a male that committed multiple hate crimes in the area. He has been charged and given Court bail conditions whilst awaiting trial.

April Update:
Officers have disrupted an organised County Lines drug gang by arresting the 'line holder', seizing the mobile phone used for the drug operations and subsequently the offender was charged with drug supply offences and remanded to court.

Officers have been conducting overt and covert patrols in Boscombe Gardens, to combat reports of nuisance and drug activity in the Gardens. Officers have used dispersal powers, stop and search and also made arrests, to ensure we are having a consistent, positive presence in the area.

March Update:
Teenagers have been causing a disturbance in the Sovereign Centre and being a nuisance to businesses. Officers attended and located the persons, dispersing them from the location and issuing banning orders.
Drug related ASB continues, but officers executed a warrant and seized a 'line phone', which is a mobile phone used by a drug dealers for their operations. This is an excellent disruption to drug dealing activities.

February Update:
5 safe and well checks have been conducted on vulnerable residents who get targeted by exploiters and offenders.
Multiple arrests have been made, including for drugs supply, money laundering and possession of a knife.

Actioned 01 October 2026

Street Sex Working

Location:
Southcote Road area, Bournemouth

Describe the issue & its affects:
Street Sex workers and kerb crawlers operating in the area, causing nuisance and alarm in the community.

What action will you take to tackle the issue:

High visibility patrols in the area to offer reassurance to the community
Engagement with vulnerable persons to actively safeguard them
Target offenders to disrupt and arrest them

Issued 01 July 2026

July Update: This priority has been extended for another 3 months.
- Officers on patrol tracked two males who they suspected to be kerb crawling, who had previous prosecutions for sexual offences. The males were issued with a community resolution and a Community Protection Warning notice.
- Another male was stopped driving in the area. The male was issued with a Community Protection Warning notice regarding his suspicious behaviour in the area.
- Officers met with colleagues from BCP parks team and crime prevention advisors to conduct and environmental visual audit of Knyveton Gardens and surrounding roads. This was to discuss ongoing issues in the area, the measures already in place to reduce ASB and what future actions can be taken.

June Update:
- Officers on patrol tracked a male who they suspected to be kerb crawling, who had previous prosecutions for sexual offences. The male was issued with a Community Protection Warning notice regarding his suspicious behaviour in the area.
- A nuisance male had been parking his car on the driveway of a B&B in the Southcote Road area, he was located by Officers whilst on targeted patrols and issued a Community Protection Warning notice regarding his behaviour.

May update:
Officers on patrol tracked a male who they suspected to be kerb crawling, who had previous prosecutions for sexual offences. The male was issued with a Community Protection Warning notice regarding his suspicious behaviour in the area.
A nuisance male had been parking his car on the driveway of a B&B in the Southcote Road area, he was located by Officers whilst on targeted patrols and issued a Community Protection Warning notice regarding his behaviour.

Apr Update:
Officers continue to attend regular meetings with a range of partner agencies, to share information and work collaboratively towards diverting vulnerable women out of street sex working.

Officers monitor intelligence on a daily basis and this ensures that patrols in the area are focussed. Any persons intent on offending and exploiting others, are targeted for Police intervention and action. We are intelligence led and the action taken is stopping people in vehicles, utilising stop and search powers, making arrests and even visiting people at home who may have been identified as being active in the area. This work continues.

Mar Update:
Officers conducted a walk around with the local MP, to engage with the community and discuss local concerns and issues in the area. This was a great opportunity to showcase the work the team are doing in the area and how we can work with various partners to keep improving community safety.

Officers regularly conduct proactive patrols and we continue with this, offering safeguarding advice where relevant and stopping potential kerb crawlers and issuing Community Protection Warning notices to ban them from the area. This is a great disruption tactic for those intent on offending and exploitation.

Feb Update:
A vehicle was loitering in the area and made off from Police, it was stopped and seized and the driver arrested for driving offences, drug offences and issued a Community Protection Warning notice for his behaviour in the area.
NPT attended a monthly meeting with various partner agencies and charities, to discuss all current street sex workers and the support, diversion and enforcement that is required

Actioned 01 October 2026