Where Men Are Tough and Cops Are Pantywaists

The good news: Cops in Kent won't be harassing partying youngsters anymore. The bad news: It's because it's too dark for the officers to feel safe.

A police force has sparked fury by admitting it is powerless to break up illegal raves — because it's too dark when the party is in full swing.

Chief Inspector Gill Ellis, of Kent Police, blamed the lack of action on "health and safety" regulations when tackled by locals whose lives are blighted by the noisy all-night drug-fests in a wooded property around Sevenoaks.

Chief Supt Ellis told a meeting of concerned residents that it was not safe to disperse revellers in remote locations when it was dark — insisting safety regulations meant officers had to wait until sunrise to break up the bashes.

[h/t: Fark]

Comments

[Martin Owens]

No problem to break up the party here...

Tell somebody the wicked ravers are (gasp!) smoking tobacco- that's right officer, I said tobacco! Or eating junk food- no, worse, red meat! And saying nasty things about dolphins and polar bears, no really!

You'll have a battalion of " public health" snoops and PC busybodies and enviro-meddlers, and they'll be on those ravers like white on rice.

Drive 'em over to Spain. Trust me.

[John Anderson]

So, "Health and Safety" regulations forbid Police to be out and about when it is dark outside? Does this mean no laws will be enforced unless it can be done without leaving a desk? What a boon to crims!