Stalkers

Of a current survey there over 300,000 people in Australia alone are stalked. A majority of them are from ex spouses and relationship partners who are often known by the victims and can usually be described by name.

Stalkers stalk people because they are seriously interested in movements and relations of the victim. They often are seeking some type of intimate relationship with the victim and will often ignore all warnings from the victim either of a physical or legal sort.

Many people admit that this problem is not that much of a threat and they do not act wisely when they first realise there may be a problem.

After an incident has occurred, they then contact us if they are still able.

There are usually three steps a stalker usually takes.

The first step is watching the victim in their movements and actions,
The second step is following the victim in their movements and actions,
The third step is the most dangerous of which the stalker involves themselves in the victim's movements and lives.

APB provides the protection so that direct contact does not take place. We have a specific protection program that will identify the stalker and stop all further actions from taking place.

We are involved in many events where persons advise us that they are being harassed. A majority of harassing people, and stalkers are of a relationship background. The difference between the stalker and the one who harasses is that a harassing person will usually harass a victim by phone, mail rather than physical appearance.

Other types of harassing people can be former employees, neighbours, former relationship partners or other persons trying to make a statement to the victim involved. Many people advise the victim to ignore such an event and it will go away, this is untrue.
On most occasions when the person being harassed ignores this issue, the harassing person goes the next step to regain the victim's attention. Depending on the severity of the harassment, the harassing person may take many, risks even dangerous ones, to gain back the attention of the victim. These are the risks that are dangerous to the victim.

In such incidents we involve ourselves to assure you that the only attention the harassing person will be receiving, will be from ourselves.

What is stalking?