New powers allow police to take unaccompanied under-16s home and disperse groups of two or more in areas where anti-social behaviour is rife. Those who refuse to leave face arrest.
Campaigners have blasted the six-month trial in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Nick Pickles of Big Brother Watch said: “This just moves the problem elsewhere. Treating every group of young people as criminals is quite wrong.
"It is a sign police have lost control and does nothing to restore community spirit or respect for the law.” Police have promised to use discretion and say they do not want to deter people from nights out in town.
4 comments:
We always had a curfew in our town when I was growing up. It didn't hurt anybody. Wish this would happen in more places.
Curfew? Seriously?!
Parental responsibility or gtfo
As a young person I never hung out at night with other kids. I could never understand why kids would want to do that. It has to be bad at home for you to hang around outside with your friends. I also don't understand why they cause damage or do graffiti. I agree with the curfew.
Stopping the rowdy nighttime behaviour associated with drunks at chucking-out time by banning all those too young to drink. Tokenism at its most pointless!
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