Economic Development vice-president Deputy Lyndon Farnham said that he had received a number of complaints from tourists about drunken violence in St Helier on Friday and Saturday nights.’In an Island this size, with the strong reputation we have as a world leader in finance and tourism, our police force should not be allowing this sort of behaviour to go on day after day, week after week,’ he said.
‘We need to be much less tolerant of this behaviour, and I call upon the police to get a grip on it.’But the deputy chief officer of the States police, Lennie Harper, said that the police were using a proactive approach that had seen arrests for drink-related assaults drop.’Street assaults and disorder have actually fallen,’ said Mr Harper.
‘There is a direct correlation in us intervening early and the fact that incidents are not developing into assaults.’He added that chief officer Graham Power had previously called for new public order laws to combat threatening or insulting behaviour, which were not yet covered by Jersey law.
