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Originally Posted by frogstamper
Whether customers wear football shirts or not you'd have thought it was a given that the police would "act" if a pub was "not actively supporting the prevention of crime".
So if landlords let customers wear football shirts and actively promote crime the police will act....shock horror indeed.
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There's a huge difference between "actively promoting crime" and "not actively supporting the prevention of crime".
Why is it a publicans job to "actively support the prevention of crime"? It's not, it's their job to follow licensing laws, and it's the polices job to actively prevent crime.
If it all kick off in a pub where the landlord has followed the licensing laws (e.g. not serving people who are clearly drunk) then that's their responsibility fulfilled. Wearing England tops or not doesn't come in to it. If people want to pick a fight based on a top being worn that is not for the landlords to "actively prevent".
The 3rd option, that lies between "actively promoting crime" and "not actively supporting the prevention of crime, of "doing what is required by law", should be all any landlord is expected to do, and threats of using licensing law to shut down pubs that are doing just that because they aren't following "guidance" that suggests infringing on the rights of it's patrons is ridiculous.