While I think that the whole House will agree with the tribute which my right hon. Friend has paid to the hard-pressed and ever-patient police, and while welcoming the statement which he has just made as far as it goes, may I ask him to think again concerning two of the alternatives which he has mentioned?

As Vespas or motor cycles, or whatever they are, are the methods by which these young idiots get to their place of destruction, surely it might be thought wise to confiscate their licences or disqualify them for, say, five years. The other suggestion which I ask my right hon. Friend to reconsider is whether a spot of physical punishment would not be a very useful deterrent, but, in any case, not to send these people to prison, because that makes criminals.