Cut crime: organise fancy dress contests
A reveller in fancy dress: one Welsh police officer thinks dressing up like this could help cut drink-related crime
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Tuesday, 18, Jan 2005 01:08
Organising fancy dress contests could cut drink-related crime according to a senior Welsh police officer.
Inspector Roly Schwarz, who is in charge of policing in the north Wales holiday resort of Rhyl, believes that people are less likely to cause trouble if they are wearing outlandish costumes.
He feels that dressing up will reduce the urge to get into fights before and after drinking sessions and therefore help alleviate the problem of drunken violence on Britain's city streets, the Daily Express reports.
"People are probably less likely to get involved in trouble if they're in a fancy dress costume," he said.
Insp Schwarz's radical ideas would see local police try and encourage contests, particularly on nights synonymous with trouble such as New Year's Eve.
But North Wales police have distanced themselves from the suggestion, stating that although the proposition is an "interesting idea", it does not "represent the official and considered view of the police".