Parks Officers, Community Wardens, the Dog Warden, Environmental Enforcement officers, PCSOs and Neighbourhood Police Officers can now issue fixed penalty notices of £80 for a variety of offences.

New powers include:

• Increased fines for dog fouling
• banning dogs from play areas in the parks
• putting dogs on leads at the request of authorised officers
• limiting the number of dogs any person can be in control of in a public place to 4.