• ‘Like putting out a fire with a colander of water’: my life as an antisocial behaviour officer

    ‘Like putting out a fire with a colander of water’: my life as an antisocial behaviour officer
    I lasted 18 years in the job – but working with heroin addicts, the terminally ill and nuisance neighbours nearly broke me
    One thing I’ve learned in my 18 years as an antisocial behaviour officer is that most people, even police officers or council staff with whom I work closely, have no idea what it is that I do. The best visual metaphor for my job would be an incredibly confusing Venn diagram, with circles of various sizes bumping up against squiggly shapes that look a bit like a p

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