Community Trigger

The Community Trigger allows you to ask your local Community Safety Partnership to review responses to incidents of anti-social behaviour.

This helps agencies to work together to resolve incidents of anti-social behaviour that affect residents' quality of life. We will:

• share information between agencies, reviewing the actions that have been taken
• use available resources to try to resolve problems
• make recommendations to try to prevent the situation from reoccurring.

The Community Trigger can be used if:

• you have reported at least 3 incidents of anti-social behaviour to a relevant organisation within the previous 6 months
• these incidents relate to the same behaviour, nuisance or problem
• the incidents were reported within one month of them happening.

For the purpose of the Community Trigger, an incident of anti-social behaviour is defined as behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress to a member, or members, of the public. This could include behaviour such as:

• vandalism
• public drunkenness
• noisy or abusive neighbours.

The Community Trigger does not replace the existing complaints procedures of individual organisations. To find out how to report anti-social behaviour, visit the Kent Police website.

Apply

Get the application forms for each district:

• Ashford
• Canterbury
• Dartford
• Dover
• Folkestone and Hythe
• Gravesham
• Maidstone
• Medway
• Sevenoaks
• Swale
• Thanet
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Tunbridge Wells.