City council to tackle alcohol related violence
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to examine the causes of alcohol related violence in the city with a special Task and Finish group.
The city council’s Improving Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee this week decided to set up the group following their meeting on Tuesday 22 December. Prompted by work done by Staffordshire Police, the Safer City Partnership and the city council itself, the committee decided they could look further into what could be done on the city council’s part.
Committee member Councillor Joy Garner will chair the group, which will begin its work in January. Among the issues it will seek to address and report back on will include:
The group will also seek to encourage pubs and off licences to sell alcohol even more responsibly and to increase the level of public awareness of alcohol related violence.
Councillor Garner said:
“The Task and Finish group will take a closer look at what the city council can do to help organisations like the police and domestic violence groups address the problems of violence caused by alcohol.
“It’s essential we do our part in making this city safer. There are many aspects of this problem that people never see, from abuse of hospital staff to violence towards husbands, wives, and children.
“We’re also going to look into more technical subjects such as the possibility replacing glasses in pubs with poly-carbonate glasses and plastic bottles. There are hundreds of things we can explore and we’ll be putting lots of time in to try and provide some answers to this problem.”
The Task and Finish group will begin its work early in the New Year and report back to the Improving Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
Another committee to look into the obvious.
We have laws in place, and we could (through the Council)impose a citywide drink ban in public places,but they won’t,why?
I don’t want the tired worn out excuse of “but what about people who want a glass of wine in the park, or a garden party.
Drinking wine in the park? when was the last time you saw that, unless its some wino.
Garden party’s, keep the party to your garden “no problem” take it outside and you lose your drink simple.
“¢Violence caused in town centres.
Lock them up in a cage, and hose them down with cold water till they are sober, then put them in court.
Violence to Hospital staff.
Locked up immediatley for a minimum of two years.
The problem is their “HUMAN RIGHTS”, and gutless councillors, and a problem that stays the same year in year out.
Me and you would sort this out Terry, we would just ban drinking in all public places not covered by a licance. I hope you and the famliy have a happy Xmas mate, all the best.
I haven’t got a front garden. What if I want to sit on the wall with my mates, having a harmless drink and talking to passers-by? Would the whingers make a criminal out of me because a few idiots ruin it for the rest of us?
The same to you and your good lady Warren see you in the new year mate.
Bernard, common sense should be used, if you are causing a nuisance then you deserve to get into trouble.
I disagree, Bernard, you sould be carted of down the station and bloody well given a good kicking. No, only jokeing mate, like Terry says, common sense should be employed.
Hmm, drinky poos. Yes, common sense should prevail. Seasons greetings to all from a lovely beach in Antigua. Might be back next year. Who knows.
Well, as much as I respect the police and see the obvious need for law and order, does the average copper and much more so the bureaucrats who give them orders have any common sense?
Because giving jobsworths more power over harmless individuals is what happens under this government, who would flee in terror from any genuine socialist policies but love ordering people round. And more of it might be well-intentioned but would make us suffer.