Community Trigger

What is a Community Trigger?

A Community Trigger is the process where a member of the community can request a review of their case, to ensure that a group of agencies have provided an appropriate response to the reported antisocial behaviour.

The Community Trigger is designed to ensure that agencies work together to investigate how your case was dealt with. We will do this by talking about the problem, sharing information where required and acting together to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

It is important to note that the Community Trigger does not replace the complaints procedures within individual organisations and should not be treated as such.

Does it apply to me, or someone I know?

Any Community Trigger requests within South Yorkshire take into account both the nature of the reported incidents and the number of incidents experienced.

Nature of the incident - Did it cause you harassment, alarm or distress?
Number of incidents - Have you reported 3 separate incidents relating to the same (or similar) issue within a 6 month period? The most recent incident must not be more than a month old.

If you answered 'yes' to the above 2 statements, you can ask to start the Community Trigger

Alternatively, if 5 different households have separately reported the same issue within a 6 month period, the Community Trigger threshold has also been met.

How to progress

If you meet the above criteria, you can ask for us to progress the Community Trigger on your behalf. Please proceed to complete the online form, alternatively you can call 101 or if you prefer, you can download and print out the form

Please note - For the Community Trigger to be valid, your circumstances need to meet the criteria as detailed above. You will need to provide details each time you have contacted a relevant agency, who you contacted (name, organisation and/or incident reference number) and the information about your complaint. If you do not have this information, please provide as much information as possible to allow detailed enquiries to be made.

Continue to the Community Trigger *

Victim Details

Forename(s) *

Surname *

Date of birth

House name or number *

Street *

Area

Town/City *

County

Postcode *

Email Address *

Contact Number *

Housing tenure

How did you hear about the Community Trigger?

Are you the victim? *

Type of Community Trigger

How are you requesting the Community Trigger? *

Incident Details

Please provide details of the 3 incidents

Incident 1

Date of incident *

Time of incident (Hour)

Time of incident (Min)

Location of incident *

Who did you report it to? *

Incident/Reference number (if known)

Details of the incident *

Why did the incident happen? *

Incident 2

Date of incident *

Time of incident (Hour)

Time of incident (Min)

Location of incident *

Who did you report it to? *

Incident/Reference number (if known)

Details of the incident *

Why did the incident happen? *

Incident 3

Date of incident *

Time of incident (Hour)

Time of incident (Min)

Location of incident *

Who did you report it to? *

Incident/Reference number (if known)

Details of the incident *

Why did the incident happen? *

Witness Details - other households affected by the antisocial behaviour

Please provide details of each of the 5 households - please note that each witness must be willing to be contacted. You only need to provide information regarding one incident in the past 6 months

Witness 1

Full name of witness *

Contact number of witness *

Email address of witness *

Full address of witness *

Witness 2

Full name of witness *

Contact number of witness *

Email address of witness *

Full address of witness *

Witness 3

Full name of witness *

Contact number of witness *

Email address of witness *

Full address of witness *

Witness 4

Full name of witness *

Contact number of witness *

Email address of witness *

Full address of witness *

Witness 5

Full name of witness *

Contact number of witness *

Email address of witness *

Full address of witness *

Incident Details

Details of the incident *

Why did the incident happen? *

Consent and Signature

Please read the below and confirm *

In order to proceed with the Community Trigger, you must be willing for us to share information with the partner agencies. If you do not give consent to share information, we cannot progress the Community Trigger.

Once you have completed and submitted this form, the police will work with partner agencies to investigate the information provided. You will be contacted by an officer from South Yorkshire Police, initially within 7 working day to confirm your information has been received.

Following initial enquiries, if further investigation needed, you will receive a future date by which a response will be received. Your case will be reviewed and discussed as part of a multi-agency structure, which includes representatives from Doncaster/Barnsley/Sheffield/Rotherham Councils, South Yorkshire Police, St Leger Homes, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Probation Service, Clinical Commissioning Group and Victim Support, in order to establish any further necessary actions.

We may use your email address for further contact. Please be aware that whilst our email response will be sent from a South Yorkshire Police secure network, unless you have a secure email address the delivery to your personal inbox is an insecure connection via the public internet. SYP cannot accept responsibility for any loss or inappropriate access to the email response once it has left the SYP secure network. It is also the responsibility of the person submitting the request to ensure that the email address provided is accurate. By submitting this form you confirm you have read the above and agree that you will accept correspondence via email.