This week seemingly, like Banquo’s Ghost in Macbeth, a new law has appeared to haunt us and disappeared at the final curtain, unnoticed. This week the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (ABCP) came into force. It is to give additional powers to the police, local authorities and some in the private sector to deal with problem people and situations. The background is that the European Union and UK political parties over the last decade have had terrorism or anti-social behaviour thrust onto their agendas from an often, frightened or intimidated public. Whilst often an eager general public seem
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