Surrey Street Standards originated in Guildford in 2002, and is now a highly effective, low tolerance approach to tackling antisocial behaviour across the county. It follows the yellow and red card scheme, familiar in football games worldwide. Surrey Police will show a yellow card to warn offenders who are behaving anti-socially. Their details are kept on a database, and if they re-offend within 6 months, they get a red card and are prosecuted. The cards are used for many forms of anti-social behaviour, ranging from swearing, urinating or dropping litter to acting in a threatening manner.

This is another highly effective way that we deal with anti-social behaviour. The Community Incident Action Group is multi-agency problem-solving group. It addresses any specific community safety concerns caused by problematic individuals, families or locations. Members of the group share information and intelligence, helping to identify and limit the activities of people committing crime and disorder. They deal with things like truancy, anti-social behaviour and prolific offenders.

The Joint Action Group is also a multi-agency problem-solving group. Whereas the CIAG deals with individuals, the JAG tackles problem themes and locations. For example, the police use the JAG to discuss potential dispersal orders in problem areas, to deal with anti-social behaviour.

By doing this, alternatives can be considered and longer-term plans can be put in place to deal with the problem once a dispersal order has expired.