To ask any police here..

[AlexTurnersmicrophone]

...do constabularies have such a thing as "problem solving teams"? our situation (neighbour harassment) is being looked at by a problem solving team, I had no idea there was such a thing?

Do you think you're being lied to?

Something like a cross disciplinary neighbourhood team with Police, Social Workers, Community Groups, Housing Associations etc? I'm not police but I used to sit in on a group that met to discuss wide and narrow community issues BUT that was before a lot of entirely valid data protection etc. I'm not sure they could discuss specific cases these days unless there was a specific safeguarding/ vulnerable adults or children issue? But I'm not in that field anymore.

I have no idea if I'm being lied to that's why I'm asking a general question. My husband has been classified as "vulnerable" on mental health grounds by police.

Ask them what it is and what they will be doing to resolve your issues.

It’s a cross discipline group most likely and they chose not to go into detail. The fact they can pull together a team of experts doesn’t mean that’s a permanent dept.

@AlexTurnersmicrophone

I have no idea if I'm being lied to that's why I'm asking a general question. My husband has been classified as "vulnerable" on mental health grounds by police.

Do you also have some issues? The police are not lying to you both.

No I'm not vulnerable. But yes we've had huge issues and as a result I don't entirely trust police but they do seem to be taking us seriously now and trying to help.

Ok, well the police won’t lie to you about this, it just means the issues are not the focus of one dept. Why don’t you trust the police?

They won’t just take you and your husbands word for stuff, you know that right, as malicious complaints are a thing. As are unreasonable ones.

I’m a police officer and in our force we do have problem solving teams although they’re not called such with us. From my perspective it involves a multi agency approach utilising local authority, housing,adult services, mental health teams to ensure everyone has the correct information and if they can provide any solutions to the problem.

There a number of reasons why you might have been classed as vulnerable. E.g. being a repeat victim, being targeted by multiple offenders. Increasing mental health problems because of the anti social behaviour. From my perspective it means different referral forms to fill in which go to different departments.

@Bluntness100 Yes I understand they can't just take our word for anything. There is a very long back story but we have been victims of very targeted harassment/bullying by a very manipulative narcistic type neighbour, it's just been a very long road to getting the police to get what's going on and get ourselves heard. I believe we are being heard now, but I was just wondering about what a problem solving team was.

I was told by an officer a couple of weeks ago that they were marking my husband as "vulnerable", we do get a very fast response now. He had a breakdown last summer as a result of the problems we've been having, although he is functioning well now, it has had a devastating impact on him.

@ultrababy thank you for your responses.

@AlexTurnersmicrophone just wanted to say I'm so sorry that you're going through this.

I would suggest that if you are not getting any response that is credible from the Police you should escalate to the Duty Inspector of the day. In addition the local Social Services should be involved if they are not already.
Police should be able to install a panic alarm and or CCTV.

We have cctv already, but they're crafty buggers who know where the blind spots are. I do think police are taking us very seriously now it's just taken a long long time, like I said they respond extremely fast, the other week we called 101 to log some harassment and they put us straight through as an urgent call.

I think it sounds as if your problem will be kicked into the long grass.