FOI request (FOIR-244472294)

Begging fines

Requested Tue 01 September 2020
Responded Fri 25 September 2020

A) How many Fixed Penalty Notices the council has issued to people for begging, loitering or rough sleeping for the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to date).

B) How many people the council has taken to court for breaching a Public Space Protection Order for begging, loitering, rough sleeping, or failing to pay a fine for the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to date).

C) How many Criminal Behaviour Orders the council has issued to people for begging, loitering or rough sleeping for the years 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 (to date).

Response

A) Hastings Borough Council has no offence for begging, loitering or rough sleeping so the answer is zero to all years listed.

We do have an offence of aggressive begging the Police issued one FPN in 2018 through our FPN process so we administered it.

B) Again we only have an offence of aggressive begging, one person has been taken to court for breaching a community protection in regard to aggressive begging.

C) None