Alcohol ban at La Vallette for summer
Saturday 8th August 2009, 1:00PM BST.
THE area around La Vallette bathing pools has been made an alcohol-free zone for the rest of the summer.
Chief Inspector Ruari Hardy said that it had been introduced following a rise in antisocial behaviour.
‘It has been a real problem,’ he said.
‘Alcohol has fuelled bad behaviour and a lot of rubbish is left in the area. We hope this ban will have an effect.’
There will also be regular police patrols of the area.
Police have installed signs informing people that – except for at the Half Moon Cafe – they are not allowed to drink alcohol anywhere from the bottom of Le Val des Terres to the Clarence Battery.
Earlier this year a similar ban was put in place at the Sunken Gardens in Ann’s Place.
Chief Inspector Hardy said that had been successful.
‘We hope we won’t have to put any more bans in place and this only came about because of a real problem.’
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Fair enough but does anyone else see the pattern? Anti-social drinkers are moved from the Sunken Gardens, so they head off to the Bathing Pools. Now they’ve been moved on from there, so guess what – they’ll just find somewhere else….and the circle continues.
All the police are doing is moving the problem around, they’re not actually dealing with it – unless of course their cunning plan is to sweep them gradually towards the south coast and off the cliffs?
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@Paul Le P
Any suggestions on how else they could deal with the problem?
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They also went via the harbour before ending up at the bathing places, this was the group that were smashing up the toilets on the Crown pier and tampering with the moorings in the careening yard and leaving rubbish up on the round top. As has been stated, there is nothing to be gained from just moving the problem around. Not sure what the answer is, maybe make the parents take responsbility for their delightful darlings and charge them for the cost of the vandalism and clearing up the mess they leave behind.
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@Dean – a couple of ideas:
Short term (increasing in severity depending on persistence):
Supervised community service orders (clean up rubbish etc);
On the spot fines;
Curfew Orders;
Arrest for disorderly conduct followed by a court appearance
More Long term proactive work:
Community centres where people can hang out (two are currently being worked on – the old Caves site and a place down the Bridge)
Promotion of the family & community
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@Paul Le P
All good ideas but many seem difficult to impose, I assume the police would require witnesses and signed statements to act. If they had these they would already be acting upon them. I do think the signs are the best short term solution but agree that we need a long term solution..
I think the community centres/youth clubs should help though.
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