Stakeholders team up to curb rise in anti-social behaviour
12-June-2014
Drug and alcohol abuse, dispute among families and neighbours, playing loud music in residential areas, swearing and prostitution are some anti-social behaviour among others that the police and other stakeholders deal with every day.
With a rise in the trend of these anti-social issues,
police officers from all different stations, family tribunal officers and representatives of the Property Management Company (PMC) attended a one-day familiarisation workshop this week on how to legally tackle more effectively concerns over those anti-social behaviour and activities happening in the communities and housing estates.
The workshop, which is in line with the social renaissance campaign, took place at the Seychelles Police Academy (SPA) at Pointe Larue and was conducted by Gerard Esparon, Hemanth Kumar, Clement Potter from the Attorney General’s Office and Juliana Estico, Registrar of the Supreme Court.
According to the Commander of the SPA, Superintendent Francois Freminot, with the growing trend of anti-social issues in the districts and housing estates, the police officers and other partner stakeholders need to be more informed in the legal context, especially on the correct manner to gather relevant evidence and to build up strong cases for prosecution in court.
“Legal action is our last option when dealing with anti- social issues and this workshop will also educate the officers on new ways and approaches when dealing with anti-social behavior,” he said.
During the workshop, which was of a purely technical nature, the officers from the AG’s office gave an overview of existing laws in the penal code that govern anti-social conduct and gave advice on the different approaches to deal with anti-social issues within the law and the different techniques to gather evidence for prosecution in court among other related topics.
Delegates were also advised on the need to educate the community on anti-social behaviour so that the community will be aware of what are tolerable and what are not acceptable in society.
After the presentations delegates asked for more clarifications on certain issues from the facilitators.
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