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Bailiffs are loitering outside your property or repeatedly sending nuisance text messages.

If you refuse to let bailiffs in your home then they may start tactics to make you uncomfortable in your home including:

• Loitering in the vicinity of your property

• Sitting in his van talking on his mobile

• Sending repeated nuisance text messages to your mobile

• Continuously pressing the entry buzzer

• Pretending to be calling at neighbours' properties

• Slamming doors in the communal areas of your property

• Following you around

• Making repeated nuisance telephone calls

Any of these actions can amount to committing an offence of stalking.

Section 1 and Section 2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 sets out the offence and to get a successful conviction you must gather evidence.

Take photographs of the bailiff and his van, video footage of the bailiff loitering or following you and try to take a witness with you. Smartphones automatically time-stamp your photos.

You need lots of evidence to prove the bailiff's action is not one-off because a prosecutor needs evidence of stalking over a period of time before he will consider charging a suspect.

Once your evidence and witnesses are collated together, make a complaint to the police.

Make a written complaint to police.