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Problem of drunks is a serious matter
From the Swindon Advertiser, first published Tuesday 25th Jun 2002.
I WRITE further to the article entitled `Town Centre to be alcohol-free zone' in the June 20, edition of the Evening Advertiser.
Is this a promise, or just lipservice?
I pose this question, as on Tuesday, June 18, 2002, I was forced to request the services of the police, because there was a drunken lout collapsed in the entrance to my office in Regent Circus. He urinated in the doorway, and when we politely requested him to move along, he became very belligerent.
A female PC attended on her own, got the same response we did, and the drunk was left collapsed in our doorway for the rest of the afternoon, which was very off-putting to visitors to our office, who felt intimidated.
When we reported this incident, we explained that the drunk was belligerent, you would have thought therefore that at least two officers would have attended, and one of them a male officer, given the circumstances.
It seems to me that incidents like this are not taken seriously enough. There have been numerous articles in the Evening Advertiser, publicising this problem, but it still exists. In fact I think it is on the increase, and with so many pubs in the town centre, it is not surprising.
If the PC that attended this incident, had succeeded in moving this drunk from our doorway, we would have been satisfied, but to just leave him there what was the point in coming at all?
MICHELLE INGRAM
Regent Circus
Swindon
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