Freedom of Information Request: Civil Orders and Protest
Case reference FOI2025/01072
Received 5 December 2025
Published 10 January 2026
Request
This email is a formal Freedom of Information Request. We are interested in understanding how Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBIs), and Dispersal Orders (all powers set out in the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014) have been used by your authority in relation to protest-related activity or public demonstrations between the dates of 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025. Specifically, please provide the following information, if available, regarding such orders:
1. The number of ASBIs and Dispersal Orders issued for or enforced against protest-related or public demonstration activities from 1 October 2024 to 31 October 2025.
2. The number of PSPOs imposed or breached in respect of protest-related or public demonstration activities between 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025.
3. The specific behaviours that justified issuing the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Q1 and Q2.
4. The prohibitions and/or requirements that were imposed by the PSPOs, ASBIs, and Dispersal Orders referred to in Q1 and Q2.
Response
No Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), Anti-Social Behaviour Injunctions (ASBIs), or Dispersal Orders have been used by South Derbyshire District Council in relation to protest-related activity or public demonstrations between the dates of 1 October 2024 and 31 October 2025.
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