Anti-social behaviour is someone’s behaviour that causes you harassment, alarm, distress, nuisance or annoyance. The behaviour could affect you directly or could affect your property or residential area. It can also be related to your housing or occupation.

Anti-social behaviour includes:

• hate crimes and hate incidents
• use or threatened use of violence
• repeated abusive language or behaviour
• harassment
• damage to property
• domestic abuse and violence
• vehicle nuisance involving cars, bikes or mopeds (e.g. street racing, street cruising, performing stunts or tricks on public roads, misusing vehicles off-road or the unlicensed use of powered vehicles such as mini motorbikes)
• repeated incidents of loud noise from a domestic property (e.g. persistent shouting or yelling, persistent dog barking, frequent loud music, persistent alarms or excessively loud or frequent parties)
• misuse of public spaces (e.g. intimidating groups taking over an area of a park or fly-tipping/illegal waste dumping)
• dog fouling or someone failing to control an aggressive dog
• anti-social behaviour as a result of misuse of drugs or alcohol

How you might be feeling

Everyone should be able to lead a peaceful life, free from any harassment and distress caused by a minority of anti-social people.

As a victim of anti-social behaviour, you might be going through a range of emotions, including feeling angry or intimidated. This is normal, and help is available.

Get the help you need

If you’d like more information or support, contact us now.

As well as receiving help from us, you can also get support from other organisations and charities. See below or search our directory.

Local council – You can contact your local council to get more information about anti-social behaviour in your area and report incidents:

• Bolton Council
• Bury Council
• Manchester City Council
• Oldham Council
• Rochdale Borough Council
• Salford Council
• Stockport Council
• Tameside MBC
• Trafford Council
• Wigan Council

Registered housing provider – You can also report incidents of anti-social behaviour to your registered housing provider, if you’re a tenant of one.

More information

How to report anti-social behaviour to the police

If the anti-social behaviour puts you, your family or your property in immediate danger, call the police immediately on 999.

If you’ve witnessed a crime (non-emergency), please call the police on 101 or use the live chat function on the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) website.

Report anti-social behaviour to GMP using the online form.

Report to your local neighbourhood policing team or local officer. Find their contact details here.