It includes the council, local businesses, police, children’s and youth engagement services, the community, voluntary and health sectors, and homeless and rough sleepers’ outreach support teams.

They are working in partnership to gather intelligence and swiftly act on concerns about antisocial behaviour in the town centre to ensure residents, businesses and people in the borough can feel safe.

In that vein, the council has also been working with community partners to deter young people from crime, particularly women and girls. This work is funded by the former government’s Safer Streets Fund to tackle crime in the town centre.

The council is also offering additional focused support in the town centre to ensure that young people in the area have the opportunity to talk to them about any issues or concerns they are facing, and to divert them away from crime or antisocial behaviour.

The taskforce has already successfully tackled two unauthorised encampments, clearing items from public areas, footpaths and underpasses, making them safer and preventing hazards for people walking nearby and local businesses. While they are doing this, they sensitively support all those involved to prevent problems from recurring. The taskforce also recently offered wraparound support to an individual who needed urgent hospital care during another incident.

Anyone who sees antisocial behaviour in Croydon can report it anonymously to the police via 101.

Concerns about someone who is sleeping on the streets can be sent to StreetLink who will connect them with local services.