This means that if a policeman has reason to believe that I have been drinking, am drinking, or am about to drink, he can accost me and confiscate any booze I'm carrying-on pain of arrest.
An obvious tactic will be to wait outside the off-licence; reasonable cause to belive that DTR emerging from there is about to drink.
Of course, this is all meant to be part of the fight against anti-social behaviour, and I'm not in favour of gangs of youths drinking and behaving badly in public.
But we do have established laws against under-age drinking, and also against disorderly behaviour. Why can't we just enforce those laws, rather than dreaming up a host of new ones (with enhanced police powers over all and sundry).
Here endeth today's rant.
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Dee recently told me about friends of hers where a responsible 21 year old brother was accompanying his younger brother on a trip to the off licence to get alcohol for his mother who was to hold a party. Because of stupid laws like this, community officers seized the alcohol and emptied it all out on the street!
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