Police hire "drunk" actors to catch bad pub landlords
Welsh police used actors dressed as drunks (shouldn't be too hard for the thespians to find appropriate attire) to go to local watering holes to see if they could get served booze despite having had "too much" already.
The police chief responsible for a sting operation using the "drunken" actors has refused to apologise for the tactic and warned it will be used again.
Forty-nine pubs and bars across North Wales, were visited last month as part of the controversial operation.
A group of fake boozers were asked to act drunk and try to get served in venues.
And 42 out of the 49 premises served to the fakers, who were wearing stained clothes and asked to act wobbly on their feet. The actors also told bar staff they were drunk.
Trading standards officers then visited 25 “at risk” venues – and 11 of these were deemed to be serving genuinely drunk customers.
Chief Inspector Andrew Williams, North Wales Police’s licensing lead for Conwy and Denbighshire said: “I make no apologies for this tactic and it will be used again.”
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stunner21
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Isn't part of the reason people go to pubs is to get drunk? If they're not drunk AND DISORDERLY then whats the problem? Its not up to the police to decide every aspect of peoples lives, maybe if they were a little more liberal with drug laws and other idiotic laws in this country people wouldn't drink so much to get away from the shitness of life anyway. But then again thats far to sensible an idea, nevermind.
- 2 years ago
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stunner21
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CarolineS
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stunner21:
that would be far far tooo much common sense for the government (or any government) to grasp and understand
- 2 years ago
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CarolineS
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richjm
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Surely the pubs could just claim the actors were pretty rubbish and didn't look as drunk as they thought they did?
- 2 years ago
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richjm
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CarolineS
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richjm:
haha! If I worked in a pub that would have been my excuse.
- 2 years ago
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CarolineS
