- Council provides funds to help small businesses
- Financial help for keeping warm this winter
- Improve your health at York House
- Heathrow's airtrack train plan criticised
- Have your own say on Academies
- Mayor's Christmas invite
- Net closing on Council Tax cheats
- Step pedal jump your way to rugby!
- Borough has the lowest level of alcohol fueled crimes in London
- Play safe at Halloween warning
- Enjoy a week of entertainment at Heathfield centre
- Spreading the safety message
- New funding agreed to combat the recession
- Support your local lollipop person
- Disappointment as Boris' public transport costs rise
- Ham and Petersham win £100,000 for low carbon zone
- Borough children's favourite nursery rhyme revealed on Bookstart Day
- Eastender at East Sheen Library
- Destination Richmond
- Green fingers win prizes for winning allotments
- Free flood warnings for residents at risk in Richmond
- Huge turnout for older people's event
- RISE event success
- Best Cemetery Award for Richmond and East Sheen
- Take part in Black History Month celebrations
- World Sight Day celebrated
- Question time comes to Richmond
- 2M fears local people may loose out to Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC)
- 1,000 people control their social care budgets
- £2.85 million for new homes
- Richmond Council confirms sponsor for Shene Academy
- Richmond Council extends CO2 parking
Release Date: 29/10/2009
Borough has the lowest level of alcohol fueled crimes in London
Richmond upon Thames has the lowest level of alcohol related crimes in London, a new nationwide public health report has shown.
There were just 6.51 crimes per thousand people in Richmond upon Thames, compared with central London, which had the highest level at 18 crimes per thousand, in 2008-9. The information comes from the Public Health Observatory’s latest alcohol report.
Cllr David Williams, Richmond Council’s Cabinet Member for Community Safety, said: “The Council and the police have worked hard with the licensed trade to make sure drinks are sold sensibly. We feel this partnership working is responsible for controlling the numbers of drink-fuelled crimes.
“It’s worth noting that we’ve been successful in persuading stores to check ID for anyone who looks under 25 who is trying to buy alcohol and that we have backed a raft of powers to enable police to deal effectively with anti-social behaviour.
“Many people enjoy a good night out, and having a few drinks can form part of that. I’m pleased we have the lowest level of drink fuelled crime in the capital, but this is no great surprise – we are also the safest borough in the London – a position ourselves and our partners work hard to maintain.
“We will continue to work to reduce anti-social behaviour even further – thousands of people visit our towns every week because we are known as a safe and attractive place for a night out, and we will not let a small number of rotten apples spoil that for everyone.”
Richmond Council has supported the introduction of controlled drinking zones in Richmond and Twickenham town centres, which give police discretion to confiscate alcohol from drinkers whop are or could be causing a nuisance.
A cumulative impact policy operates in Richmond where premises applying for an alcohol licence must prove they will not add to the level of nuisance through extra noise or violence.
Dispersal Orders have also been used by police, who also have power to tell people causing a problem that they must leave a particular area. The council and officers are working together to target known hotspots where fights or noise have broken out in the past.
The Council’s Pub Watch scheme also provides an easy way for pubs to inform each other and police of drunken behaviour so that it can be tackled promptly.
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