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Police warn party-goers ‘behave – or stay at home’

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Officers will also be visiting the homes and workplaces of troublemakers to warn them to behave – or stay at home this weekend.

In a first for the north-east, police will be knocking on the doors of those who caused issues the weekend before to give them an additional warning about their behaviour.

Those who also have caused trouble at events last year, such as the Tarland Show, are also being visited and told to keep away if they cannot drink and behave responsibly.

Sergeant Alun Harries said: “This is something now that we’re doing, these home visits where we give people who gave us problems the week before – perhaps assaults or urinators – an additional warning about their behaviour, and that further action will be taken if it happens again.

“We’ll also be visiting disqualified or drink-drivers if we get intelligence that they are perhaps planning to use their vehicle.”

Chief Inspector Richard Craig, area commander for Aberdeenshire south, said the initiative was another step towards “proactive policing” and that he considered his team to all be “crime reduction officers”.

He said: “Inverurie is the biggest town in Garioch, it attracts a large number of people here at the weekend, predominately on a Saturday, from outlying villages.

“It’s a very safe place to come out and the vast majority of people come out and enjoy themselves and go home without any interaction with the police, but there are one or two that can be problematic and we are targeting those individuals.

“We’ll be knocking on their doors, and saying ‘your behaviour was unacceptable last weekend, you’ve previously been involved in alcohol-related violence in the town centre of Inverurie, Kemnay, Westhill, or wherever, if you’re coming out, come and enjoy yourself – but behave’.

“If we do come across them causing problems, and because they’ve already been given a warning, we’ll take them to custody.”

Throughout the week, officers also check court orders, including bail, exclusion and curfews, to ensure those who are out at the weekend are entitled to be.

Ch Insp Craig added: “We do all the hard work in the middle of the week, building up to the weekend so that hopefully the public can go out and enjoy Inverurie safely and don’t become the victims of crime.”

Srg Harries said: “We’ve not got a high problem with violent crime. Inverurie is still really a safe place to come out at night to enjoy, but with it getting bigger and bigger, more people are coming out and we need to proactively police the town and try new things.”