Private drunk tanks - Yea or Nay?

[vetran]

Just for colour :

The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York - YouTube

So should we have private drunk tanks or should the Police just do their job properly?

Police Back Private 'Drunk Tanks' For Revellers

[MaryPoppins]

I agree with it, but doubt many will pay the 'charge', and I also doubt it will act as any sort of deterrent.

[Chunk]

Who's going to drive them?

I remember occasionally going to a pub called The Windmill in Wandsworth (or was it Cla'hm Common?) and one night a tank full of the beautiful people rocked up! All had flowers in their hair.

[BrilloPad]

Can't we put them in the drunk tank then drop it in the thames?

Quite why hospitals treat anyone who is drunk is beyond me.

[Ticktock]

I always get annoyed when I watch any of those shows following the police around.

You see a group of women effing and blinding, pissing on the side of the road, etc, and the police roll up, put them in the van and give them a life home and maybe a warning.
Then you see a couple of guys who are drunk, shouting and swearing, and it's either a fixed penalty or off to the cop shop for the night, followed by a fine.

As long as private drunk tanks don't give any sort of money back to the police then I don't see a major issue - a private facility instead of a cell - but I'd be wary of anything which encouraged the police to send people there rather than giving a warning, and I think it may put more focus on whether "Section 5" is overused if people are suddenly faced with large bills when in the past they would have got a warning and sent home.

[sasguru]

I agree with it, but doubt many will pay the 'charge', and I also doubt it will act as any sort of deterrent.

Don't see why not, you can't usually escape a parking fine - it would be just like that.
Criminal offence if you fail to give your address on sobering up.

[d000hg]

Don't see why not, you can't usually escape a parking fine - it would be just like that.
Criminal offence if you fail to give your address on sobering up.

If the miscreant is a benefits claimant spending their JSA on booze there's not a whole lot you can do to get money from them.

[cailin maith]

Yea.

[sasguru]

If the miscreant is a benefits claimant spending their JSA on booze there's not a whole lot you can do to get money from them.

New law to dock JSA then.
Something very wrong if people are spending that on booze.
FFS sometimes I despair of the stupidity (or maybe "spoiledness", to coin a term) of the populace.

[amcdonald]

If the miscreant is a benefits claimant spending their JSA on booze there's not a whole lot you can do to get money from them.

Change the law so that you can stop their benefit if they don't pay the fine, problem solved