I took part in an interview at Radio Sheffield yesterday as part of a discussion on late night problems in Dronfield along with a police inspector. The whole slot for this only lasted about 5 minutes and hence was not very useful as a debate on this. However it is clear that the police are not able (or willing) to put in sufficent resources late at night (between 12 and 2.30am) to help sort out the nuisance which arise at this time and cause local residents distress. They concentrated very much on the issue “recorded crime has fallen” and sidestep the issue of nuisance (the “prevention of nuisance” is a requirement put upon enforcement agencies as part of the 2003 Lcensing Act).  In  a recent statement commenting on the 2008/09 Police Budget, Derbyshire Chief Constable said “I will inevitably have to reduce the visible officer numbers in some of our neighbourhoods and on our reactive patrols” So not much hope there.