Drunk is arrested under new powers (From Echo)

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  el caballero de la noche wrote:
  A mockery of the sufficient law:
  
  Drunk and disorderly
  Drunk and incapable
  Breach of the Peace
  Threatening Behaviour
  
  ARE ENOUGH.
  
  Drunk in charge of a child
  Drunk in charge of a cycle
  Swearing in the street (Town Police Clauses)
  
  WHAT MORE DO THE POLICE NEED THESE DAYS ?

  The Police have certain issues when it comes to arresting drunks, the first being if they are that drunk that they fall into one of the above offence groups, if they do make it past the custody door, you dont tie up just one Police Officer, you end up taking 2 or 3 of the street, drunks need to be watched to ensure they don't pass out and choke to death on their own puke, most drunks are then kicked out of custody when they have sobered up a bit. Good use of the Police time? NO. If they do make it to court, they normally get off with a fine, worth the 8 hours of work that the Police put into it? NO. If I have a bunch of drunks outside my shop and the mere presence of the PCSO moving in their direction makes them go, then its job done for me, or if the PCSO turns up and takes their drink away and they go, its job done for me and I am happy. If the PCSO turns up takes their drink, fines them for drinking in the street, does some checks, get the Proper Police down and some of them get arrested for having outstanding warrents and the rest go, its job done for me. I am happy, and thats a much much better use of tax payers money then having all of Essex Police baby sitting drunks. But I can tell its what some of you want, so I would love to see your faces when you dial 999 only to be told there is no one free due to several drunk arrests, or your job is deemed low crime so you will see someone when we are free. "bla bla I pay my taxes send someone now, bla bla""
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