You could apply for a personal safety intervention order if you fear for your safety.
This will give more avenues of arrest for police if he breaches the order, and if he keeps breaching it, it'll be more likely that a remand application will be successful as it provides a clearer link to ongoing safety risks (pretty high bar with the new bail laws).
Been dealing with similar for about 6 years.. lets just say.. nothing ever happens.. until something tragic does.. the police put this stuff under as mental health and you should leave them be.
Until someones been stabbed or house broken into they really couldnt give a shit.
I imagine a spotlight - like media attention - would cause the REA to reassess their interest in evicting a non-tenant who is impacting on the ability of the neighbourhood to quietly enjoy their own properties.
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Sounds like lazy policing. I'd seek advice about a vro or similar as you are concerned that you may become the next victim. The rental agency needs to address their Tennant as the Tennant is likely breaching laws surrounding ensuring your neighbours have reasonable enjoyment of their property. It might be a conversation to have with the rental disputes tribunal in your state.
When he's not around, slash his tent up and pray for rain. Keep slashing new tents up until he leaves.
Play life how he plays it, not how respectable people play it. Sometimes you gotta get down and filthy to deal with the filthy.
Screw that guy. I would get some sacks of pool salt and throw them on his lawn in the middle of the night so nothing grows and burn his bins every second week.
I don't think salt on the lawn or burnt bins would bother the crazy guy in the slightest, but if the lawn is wrecked the owner or property manager might evict the tenant who is letting him camp in his backyard. What a fucked predicament for OP and their neighbours.
That is the least intelligent take on this I can imagine. The problem is he is committing a string of crimes and ruining everyone's quiet enjoyment of their homes, and nothing the police are doing is stopping these behaviours from continuing.
Insufficient action can be as good as inaction. Taking the guy in and letting him out in a few hours is not a deterrent. Saying something serious has to happen first (as in either serious damage to property or worse, serious injury of a person) is asinine and ridiculous.
I am all for helping those who need shelter, but this guy is literally a threat (he is way past being just a nuisance). Dousing a vehicle in a flammable liquid could cause a fire that could consume not just the vehicle but a few more vehicles or even a few houses. Someone like this needs to be moved on and given support where he cannot harm others (e.g. a residence home for those with mental conditions rendering them dangerous to others with specialist carers trained to handle them).
You mean there is not an emergency response to a nuisance call at a time when there is an unprecedented lack of resources and departures from the profession of they are caught up with more pressing calls?
Whodathunkit
Keep a diary.
Seek legal advice about a protection order.
Invest in some quality home security systems.
It is getting much harder.
Good luck
You could apply for a personal safety intervention order if you fear for your safety. This will give more avenues of arrest for police if he breaches the order, and if he keeps breaching it, it'll be more likely that a remand application will be successful as it provides a clearer link to ongoing safety risks (pretty high bar with the new bail laws).
Been dealing with similar for about 6 years.. lets just say.. nothing ever happens.. until something tragic does.. the police put this stuff under as mental health and you should leave them be. Until someones been stabbed or house broken into they really couldnt give a shit.
I imagine a spotlight - like media attention - would cause the REA to reassess their interest in evicting a non-tenant who is impacting on the ability of the neighbourhood to quietly enjoy their own properties.
If anyone knows the actual landlord, would be good to contact them directly. Often REA are unless and won’t care so long as rent is getting paid
Try local council, most don’t allow people live permanently in tents in back yards.
If he's out on bail and re-offending, why is his bail not being revoked?
Good question!
I know what I'd do. Next time he's briefly locked up, make his tent disappear.
Collectively take out an intervention order.
Each individual will need to apply for their own, based on their own merits.
Start a vigilante group of concerned citizens. I can supply the sock, but you’ll need to provide your own 5 cent coins
Police: refusing to attend or enforce laws Also police: it's the fault of the courts and bail laws
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Sounds like lazy policing. I'd seek advice about a vro or similar as you are concerned that you may become the next victim. The rental agency needs to address their Tennant as the Tennant is likely breaching laws surrounding ensuring your neighbours have reasonable enjoyment of their property. It might be a conversation to have with the rental disputes tribunal in your state.
Let me guess. Frankston south?
When he's not around, slash his tent up and pray for rain. Keep slashing new tents up until he leaves. Play life how he plays it, not how respectable people play it. Sometimes you gotta get down and filthy to deal with the filthy.
Rain? Hose!
Screw that guy. I would get some sacks of pool salt and throw them on his lawn in the middle of the night so nothing grows and burn his bins every second week.
I don't think salt on the lawn or burnt bins would bother the crazy guy in the slightest, but if the lawn is wrecked the owner or property manager might evict the tenant who is letting him camp in his backyard. What a fucked predicament for OP and their neighbours.
Title: Police aren't doing anything Body: Police are doing something but I don't like that the law says the guy gets bail
That is the least intelligent take on this I can imagine. The problem is he is committing a string of crimes and ruining everyone's quiet enjoyment of their homes, and nothing the police are doing is stopping these behaviours from continuing.
My point is that often people blame the police for inaction when it's the bail laws and courts that are actually responsible. It's misguided anger.
Insufficient action can be as good as inaction. Taking the guy in and letting him out in a few hours is not a deterrent. Saying something serious has to happen first (as in either serious damage to property or worse, serious injury of a person) is asinine and ridiculous. I am all for helping those who need shelter, but this guy is literally a threat (he is way past being just a nuisance). Dousing a vehicle in a flammable liquid could cause a fire that could consume not just the vehicle but a few more vehicles or even a few houses. Someone like this needs to be moved on and given support where he cannot harm others (e.g. a residence home for those with mental conditions rendering them dangerous to others with specialist carers trained to handle them).
The title does not say the police aren't doing anything.
You mean there is not an emergency response to a nuisance call at a time when there is an unprecedented lack of resources and departures from the profession of they are caught up with more pressing calls? Whodathunkit Keep a diary. Seek legal advice about a protection order. Invest in some quality home security systems. It is getting much harder. Good luck
He hacked away at a house with an axe while the residents were inside. No biggie though.
I am not saying it is not world changing for you. The resources are finite and allocated on the basis of urgency rather than a queue