Policing and Crime Bill
4:00 pm
Mike Craik: Certainly. On behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers, I largely welcome the proposals in the Bill. As for examples of mandatory requirements, the things that spring to mind that need discussing are a range of possibilities around pricing—special officers, two for the price of one, 24 hour drinking, vertical drinking spaces, and trying to create an arena where more people sit down and drink, rather than cramming a lot of people into one place. There is also a real opportunity to do something about advertising and the sale and presentation of drink. I can best exemplify that by describing the sort of things I saw in my local supermarket over Christmas. There were mountains of phenomenally reduced very strong lager—50p a can—and drink could be purchased from different parts of the premises, rather than through the normal cash till. There are a range of options that it might prove useful to discuss and form some agreement on.