Police and council officials in Wales say licencees could lose their licence if they cannot stop smokers using bad language outside their pubs.
Police and council officials in Wales say licencees could lose their licence if they cannot stop smokers using bad language outside their pubs.
A report by the Safer Neath Port Talbot Business Crime Reduction Partnership says the bad language is anti-social behaviour and is the responsibility of licensees.
Failure to adequately control the impact and conduct of the public house can lead to a review of their licence, or even revocation
Neath Port Talbot Council environmental health manager, Huw Jones.
"Primarily, if there is public disorder, then the police have powers to act.
"Additionally, the landlord will have responsibilities under the Licensing Act to maintain control of his premises and this duty extends to the impact his business has on the immediate vicinity.
"Failure to adequately control the impact and conduct of the public house can lead to a review of their licence, or even revocation."
The authority's head of licensing, Jim Sullivan, said some complaints had already been dealt with informally.
"We have spoken to one or two premises and they have taken steps to resolve the matter one way or another," he told the paper.
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A report by the Safer Neath Port Talbot Business Crime Reduction Partnership says the bad language is anti-social behaviour and is the responsibility of licensees.
Failure to adequately control the impact and conduct of the public house can lead to a review of their licence, or even revocation
Neath Port Talbot Council environmental health manager, Huw Jones.
"Primarily, if there is public disorder, then the police have powers to act.
"Additionally, the landlord will have responsibilities under the Licensing Act to maintain control of his premises and this duty extends to the impact his business has on the immediate vicinity.
"Failure to adequately control the impact and conduct of the public house can lead to a review of their licence, or even revocation."
The authority's head of licensing, Jim Sullivan, said some complaints had already been dealt with informally.
"We have spoken to one or two premises and they have taken steps to resolve the matter one way or another," he told the paper.
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So Licensees are now to police the streets around their premises too are they? Isn't it about time the police started paying them?
This is totally unreasonable in my opinion - these licensees are struggling with a major drop in trade in the main since the smoking ban came in. Where possible most have tried to accommodate the smokers with spending money on outside areas, despite their income decreasing, now they are supposed to police the streets! It is beyond belief. Anyway, who says it is their customers who are using bad language? If it is in a public street, it could be anyone from any pub or club or even from a mates house, so where are the bloody police? Probably sitting by a hedge trying to catch out the unwary driver who has managed to speed by a couple of miles an hour! I have certainly noticed that there are more police sitting idly about, particularly on housing estates, in places where it is obvious they are after a soft target by catching drivers not wearing a seatbelt, talking on a mobile phone or perhaps eating or drinking whilst driving. Can anyone explain to me what we pay the police for? Our contribution has increased and yet we have fewer police in our small town, 2 working 9.00 to 5.00 and 2 'plastic' police - you know, these ones that go around looking all important but have no powers to do anything? As a consequence there is a local person who has been banned from several areas in the town, especially during the evenings, who is always in those areas harassing people because the cop shop is shut and there is no-one to stop him. If you phone the main police station in a nearby town they don't often know where our little town is!
I hope that these licensees are able to fight this and don't just give in in the way they did with the smoking ban, as before long they will be responsible for the whole street their pub is on and after that, who knows, possibly a whole estate, village or small town - all for free to the council and police!
Come on landlords, don't stand for this tactic of big brother, trying to use you as free, untrained, police - we have already seen too many innocent victims who tried to tackle yobs leaving behind a grieving family - don't add yourselves to the list.
Lyn
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