WHAT DOES THE THREE YEAR ORDER AIM TO CRACK DOWN ON?

The three-year order comes into force on Monday, covering the city centre, Mowbray Park, Sunniside, and the University of Sunderland site in and around Chester Road. Activities covered include:

Alcohol control – Police and authorised officers have the power to confiscate alcohol in a public space, excluding licensed premises, where they believe it is causing or is likely to cause anti-social behaviour.

Begging – restricts any person engaging in anti-social/nuisance behaviour while begging. Begging includes any passive and active methods, including but not limited to, non-verbal signs, hand held out, written notice, or verbal attempts to exhort, press, pressure, urge the giving of material help, assistance, food or money.

Bin raking – restricts any person engaging in bin raking. Bin raking is the searching and taking of any items whatsoever from rubbish bins, bags or items clearly left to be disposed of or belonging to another.

Street trading and peddling – restricts any person engaging in anti-social/nuisance behaviour while street trading.

Dog control – prohibits dog fouling, exclusion of dogs to play areas and dogs on lead by direction.

Skateboardandcycles– prevents the anti-social use of skateboards, cycles and stunt cycles causing damage to property, or nuisance or annoyance to one or more persons.

Psychoactive substances – restricts any person eating, drinking, inhaling, injecting, smoking or otherwise taking any psychoactive substance in a public place.