Mr Renshaw added: “I’ve spoken to people who felt they have been approached when they have been sat on the grass drinking and other people haven’t.<\/p>\n
“But the larger picture was that anti-social behaviour in the city centre was problematic, and the PSPO is helping to address that.”<\/p>\n
Sixty-two of the 219 people who breached the order received notices of intended action, which the council said “emphasised a preventative approach”, and showed officers had “prioritised offering support” rather than issuing fines.<\/p>\n
Kurtis Crossthorn, chair of communities at the council, said: “Hopefully in time we will see these behaviours reduced and people feeling safer.<\/p>\n
“The PSPO is there to keep people safe. It will only be enforced if behaviour is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to others.<\/p>\n
“It is great to see that officers are using their powers to offer support and intervention to those who need it.”<\/p>\n
A report to Sheffield City Council in 2024 suggested the PSPO was needed due to “continuous and unreasonable” anti-social behaviour in parts of the city centre.<\/p>\n
Just over two thirds of people surveyed and 67 out of 77 organisations supported it being introduced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Renshaw added: “I’ve spoken to people who felt they have been approached when they have been sat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-303409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114941173811271921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}