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How to recognise stalking?

Have you experienced a person:

  • Follow, watch, monitor, track or spy on you?
  • Spread rumours about you?
  • Impersonate you online?
  • Create false media accounts to share inappropriate or false information about you?
  • Pester you?
  • Communicate with or about you?
  • Purported to act or communicate on your behalf?
  • Disclose to other persons private information about you?
  • Interfering with your property (including pets)?
  • Loitering in your vicinity (home/work/social activities)?
  • Use third parties such as family, friends, colleagues, Gardaí to facilitate their stalking of you?
  • Breach a court order?
  • Enter your home or vehicle to steal/move or leave items?

Have you had to make changes to your day to day routine such as:

  • Move house?
  • Alter your travel routes?
  • Alter your daily routines?
  • Increase security at your home or work place?
  • Change job?
  • Stop visiting family and friends?
  • Change or cancel hobbies/social activities?
  • Your health is suffering (anxiety/headaches/shortness of breath/insomnia)?