Metropolitan Police Federation - Constables' Branch Board

• Chairmans View

Paul Deller - 4th December 2009

Welcome to the new CBB website, I hope that you will take a few minutes to familiarise yourself with the new layout. We have tried to make the site easier to navigate your way around.

Along with the new layout we have introduced a poll section where you can give an instant opinion on the current topic. We have improved the discount deals and special offers section and hope to bring you a range of deals and discounts in the coming weeks, from mobile phones and attraction tickets, to cars and days out in London. The popular section like find your rep have been retained and updated to include all the various (B) ocu’s within the MPS.

We hope to keep the site as topical and up-to-date as we can but if you have any suggestions on how it could be improved or there is something you would like to see added then please use the link provided in the contact us section to email us your suggestion.

Moving away from the new design of the site Christmas will soon be on us and we are I am sure well aware of the extra problems that this time of year can bring, from the office party that someone gets a little tipsy at, to the full scale punch up that will occur ever more at weekends and no doubt on Christmas eve and New years eve.

In my last view I mentioned that Local authorities seemed to be hiding behind the 2003 Licensing act as an excuse for not refusing a licence or imposing conditions on premises with a poor track record. I have noticed that at least one red top national daily paper has again been carrying stories around booze Britain and the problems that cheap alcohol causes in our town centres when not properly controlled.

Well with the festive period approaching I pose the question to licensing committees around the MPS and beyond to act swiftly where they become aware of licensed premises breaking the terms and conditions of their licence and hit them where it hurts most, in the pocket by enforcing temporary closures of premises that are not conducted in an orderly way. This is the only way that I believe we will ever start to deal with the issues and get to grips with the problems that draining the resources of the Police and keeping us away from Policing crime as opposed to disorder and also the resources of a stretched NHS and especially is A&E departments...

Paul Deller
Chairman Constables Branch Board
Metropolitan Police Federation

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