Council set to target antisocial behaviour

A LOCAL authority is considering bringing in bylaws to provide community work programmes for people who “make life hell for ordinary decent citizens”.

The probation service or Garda Reserve, it has been suggested, could be used to supervise community service orders for those convicted of antisocial behaviour. The novel proposal from Cork County Council is to be presented to a joint policing committee.

Councillor Deirdre Forde said, in addition to low-level offenders, bylaws could be considered to include all types of antisocial behaviour. “Noisy parties are a huge problem. So, too, are boy-racers who drive around estates after dark with noisy exhausts. There are vandals and also people who daub graffiti on walls and others who let their dogs bark all day and night.