Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

(asked on 8th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to introduce the use of drunk tanks by the police to alleviate pressure on A&E departments at weekends.


Answered by
Baroness Featherstone Portrait
Baroness Featherstone
This question was answered on 13th January 2015

The Government is taking a wide range of action to tackle alcohol-related crime and disorder and has increased the powers available to police and local authorities. We are supporting innovative action at a local level and it is up
to local authorities and agencies, including the police, to decide what works best in their area, using the powers available. The term "drunk tank" is used in a variety of ways. In some areas, local agencies have already set up centres
whose aims include the reduction of pressure on health and ambulance services. However, the Government has no plans to introduce legislation on new forms of police detention.

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