'Drunk Tanks'

[For Us All]

Apparently 50% of all violent crime is alcohol related and is costing the country a fortune,so is this the answer?

 

Views and opinions please.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sober-up-in-drunk-tanks-and-pay-up-to-400-to-leave-8823467.html

[JOHNNYAITCH]

We have to punish and protect and educate those who deliberately get drunk as part of having a good time.

 

I'm all in favour of charging people for their care for self inflicted drunkenness..maybe let them get away with it a couple of times to let them learn their lesson but after that they pay

 

I can't understand anyone who drinks to deliberately get drunk..pretty sad I reckon

 

drunk : affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one’s faculties or behaviour

[Birdy]

Why does everything have to be a private enterprise nowadays? The motive will be profit driven and this as always distorts the nature of this style of operation.

 

I am more in favour of a blanket ban of advertising such products and industries (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, legal loan sharks etc) prevention is better than a cure but with all the vested interests in Westminster there's no chance.

 

Are you a reformed drunk JA?

[JohnJames]

Get a grip of the drinking culture. Smoking is the lesser of the two evils. No one ever beat their wife up because they had had one too many fags!

[bookworm]

sounds a good idea

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Are you a reformed drunk JA?

 

No..never have been a drunk so definitely not a reformed one

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Why does everything have to be a private enterprise nowadays? The motive will be profit driven and this as always distorts the nature of this style of operation.

 

It doesn't but if it's run by private companies then it's not a drain on the public purse

 

I am more in favour of a blanket ban of advertising such products and industries (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, legal loan sharks etc) prevention is better than a cure but with all the vested interests in Westminster there's no chance.

 

Why should responsible drinkers, responsible gamblers etc be denied the opportunity to know what products and services are out there? Prevention is more about education than banning advertising...why do people want to go out and get drunk..get the answers and we might be able to prevent them from doing so

[boltonsno1]

Its Christmas Eve babe...

[Birdy]

It doesn't but if it's run by private companies then it's not a drain on the public purse

 

 

 

Why should responsible drinkers, responsible gamblers etc be denied the opportunity to know what products and services are out there? Prevention is more about education than banning advertising...why do people want to go out and get drunk..get the answers and we might be able to prevent them from doing so

 

Because it helps to protect to vulnerable, simple.

[Santa]

It doesn't but if it's run by private companies then it's not a drain on the public purse

Ever heard of Serco and G4S?

[Birdy]

Ever heard of Serco and G4S?

Or that missing £20 billion on a computer system that didn't quite work!

[Vale Away]

If the police are not running them then what would stop people just leaving them? It would be deemed as kidnapping surely.

[Thevalefan]

They are not.

 

Its just that people say they had drank 15 pints and couldn't remember anything that happened. Subsequently they are let go free of charge. Same for drugs. Read 'ThisisStaffordshire' its a daily occurance!

[Thevalefan]

& I bet 80% wouldn't bother paying the fine that comes with it and once there in/out the tank the police wont chase them for the money.

[blackdog]

The drain on A&E at the week end is getting to breaking point having spent a night recently in A&E and seen the man hours wasted by the nursing staff and Police looking after wasted teenagers I for one am glad something is being done, if they can pay for the booze they can pay for the treatment