Relation to the Licensing Police Department

WQ.191/2023

WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS BY DEPUTY T.A. COLES OF ST. HELIER SOUTH

QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 24th APRIL 2023 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 2nd MAY 2023

Question

“In relation to the States of Jersey Police Licensing Unit, will the Minister provide the following for 2022 and from January to date for 2023 –

1. the number of complaints received about licenced premises;
2. the number of enforcements brought against licenced premises; and
3. the number of arrests made on licenced premises?”

Answer

Due to other operational and staffing pressures, the dedicated States of Jersey Police licensing unit was disbanded in 2019 and the responsibility was then carried by all operational shifts and the Community Team. SOJP have recently reintroduced a dedicated resource within the Community Team.

We are unable to specifically provide the information requested in a) and c). The number of ‘complaints’ against licenced premises is not a figure that is recordable on the police system, only crimes recorded against licensed premises. This data would require a manual trawl of all incident logs. A manual trawl of all arrest logs would also be required to determine if it were affected on a licenced premise.

We do however have the following data, which is the count of all recorded crime related to conduct on licenced premises since January 2022.

b)  Enforcements brought against licenced premises:

Fail to conform to conditions of a licence - Art 79 Licensing Law 1974  3