Legal Speak
An authorised person may issue a Community Protection Notice (CPN) to an individual aged 16 or over, or a body, if satisfied on reasonable grounds that:
(i) the conduct of the individual or body is having a detrimental effect, of a persistent or continuing nature, on the quality of life of those in the locality; and
(ii) the conduct is unreasonable.
A CPN may be issued by a constable, the relevant local authority, or a person designated by the relevant local authority for the purposes of this section.
A CPN can only be issued if the offender has been given a written Community Protection Warning and their conduct does not change.
The Warning must give the recipient a reasonable amount of time to make the changes detailed within the document and the CPN cannot introduce new requirements that are not listed in the warning.
A Community Protection Warning and Notice can impose any of the following requirements on the individual or body issued with it:
a) A requirement to stop doing specified things
b) A requirement to do specified things
c) A requirement to take reasonable steps to achieve specified results.
A person issued with a CPN who fails to comply with it commits an offence.
Example
An individual who regularly allows their dog to foul a communal garden and a group regularly taking the same route home late at night whilst drunk, making noise and waking their neighbours (neither of these incidents of persistent ASB had been covered by previous legislation).