Response 3862366

Response to request for information

Reference

3862366

Response date

5 December 2025

Request

We are interested in understanding how Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBIs), and Dispersal Orders (all powers set out in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) have been used by your authority in relation to protest-related activity or public demonstrations between the dates of 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025. Specifically, please provide the following information, if available, regarding such orders:

1. The number of ASBIs and Dispersal Orders issued for or enforced against protest-related or public demonstration activities from 1 October 2024 to 31 October 2025.
2. The number of PSPOs imposed or breached in respect of protest-related or public demonstration activities between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025.
3. The specific behaviours that justified issuing the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2.
4. The prohibitions and/or requirements that were imposed by the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2.

Response

We are interested in understanding how Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBIs), and Dispersal Orders (all powers set out in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) have been used by your authority in relation to protest-related activity or public demonstrations between the dates of 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025. Specifically, please provide the following information, if available, regarding such orders:

1. The number of ASBIs and Dispersal Orders issued for or enforced against protest-related or public demonstration activities from 1 October 2024 to 31 October 2025.
   • Nil
2. The number of PSPOs imposed or breached in respect of protest-related or public demonstration activities between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025.
   • Nil
3. The specific behaviours that justified issuing the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2.
   • Not applicable
4. The prohibitions and/or requirements that were imposed by the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2.
   • Not applicable