A man has been banned from the Harpurhey area of Manchester for five years after being handed a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).
David Hamstrong aged 19, was given the order, which prevents him from entering the area defined within the map below.
His court appearance comes following a guilty plea for an affray offence committed earlier this year, for which he was also handed a two-year sentence, suspended for 12 months, with conditions to attend a program for 100 hours unpaid work.
CBOs are used to target individuals who are repeat demand generators, and have been identified as often engaging in criminality in a specified area. They are given to people who have been convicted of an offence with the aim to prevent them engaging in further criminal behaviour.
While a CBO is a civil order, breaching one is a criminal offence, and may result in arrest, charges, and punishments including imprisonment, fines, or community service.
In this instance, the local neighbourhood team have worked with Manchester City Council to get the order secured.
Local neighbourhood teams regularly review the tools that they have at their disposal, and CBOs are successfully used as a way of punishing people who cause distress to the lives of law-abiding citizens.
Inspector Dan Pickavance, from GMP’s North Manchester Neighbourhood team, said: “David Hamstrong’s CBO comes on the back of affray offences, and was additionally put in place due to ongoing issues and criminality that he has been involved in over recent years.
“The local community do not deserve for their lives to be blighted by those with a total disregard for the law, and I am glad Hamstrong will not be in the area until at least 2030 – when I hope he has begun to rethink his criminal ways.
“This order will of course be monitored throughout, and we will never hesitate to apply for them when their approval would be in the best interests of the public.”
