PUBWATCH MEETING THURSDAY 2^nd JUNE

Main Meeting 

 Attendees:

 Bill Dearlsey – Liquid

Ricky Hung – Roast Bar

Maggie Hewlett – Fleet and Babylon

Mal – Yates

Steve Hudson – Drift in the City

Steve Millett – Drift in the City

Jimmy Fulton – Bar Risa/Highlight

Nathan Quick – Tiger Tiger

Andy Sykes – Stadium

Dave Livingstone – Students Union

Darren – Portsmouth Guildhall

Jason Mackenzie-Swift – Pure

Natalie Owens – JDW IKB

Peter Griffiths – JDW Trafalgar

William Jackson – Bar 38

Stuart Weston – Club 8

John Cross – Ambulance

Pat Jolly – Street Pastors

Steve Webber – Police

Keith Hall - Police

 

Apologies:

Wayne Fewings – Police

Matt Debenham – Police

Alan Knobel – Council

Neeta – PBCRP

Mark Fear – Pure

David – V Bar

 

Pat – Street Pastors Update

 

- One recent incident involving a street pastor who got pushed over – this is the first assault in the 4 years of street pastors

- The Safe Space is moving to the Hippodrome (next to Stadium Bar) and will be manned by the Ambulance service and not the Street Pastors.  The Street Pastors will still have a radio link so will be contactable, and will most probably still use the Safe Space as their base but will keep us updated.

- Pat advised that the new team in Albert Road is going well and this may be increased to a Saturday and not just a Friday.

- The Safe Space flyers that we have now have the wrong phone number on them so please get rid of them.

- Pat wanted to pass on a message from Ellie – thank you to the venues who have sponsored a street pastor.  Also, the latest quiz was really good with lots of support.

  

John – Community Health Practitioner Update

 

- The recent US Navy visit went well with no incidents involving the visitors.

- In the last month 26 people have visited safe space for medical reasons.  Out of that number 11 went to hospital by their own way and only 6 needed an ambulance.

- John advised that the Safe Space came up for tender and the ambulance service won it.  They have moved the location due to the new venue being on one level and not having any steps which is much easier for patients.

- Safe Space is on the same radio and the hours are the same 10pm-3am.

- Bill asked what would happen with Safe space if the ambulance team had to go off and deal with an emergency.  Some times in the old Safe Space the ambulance would have to go off but the Street pastors were still on site to run it.  John advised that there will be more ambulance staff and that they wouldn’t be able to leave Safe Space unattended so if there were no street pastors around then the Ambulance simply wouldn’t be able to leave anyway.

  

Steve and Keith - Police Update

Steve had some points that Sgt Fewings wanted to bring up:

-The weekend with the US Navy went well and the city was perceived in a good light.  Great feedback from everyone involved so hopefully they will come back again in the future. Bill asked if we could feed this back to The News to show something positive in the city.

- 1 Punch Can Kill campaign – police campaign was meant to be 4 scenes over 4 consecutive weekends.  The first two were run but the second two couldn’t be run due to bad weather and low staffing levels.  The feedback has been fairly positive from the 2 that they did run.  Bill asked the question of what is the status of the campaign, how long do we need to be showing the posters for?  Steve advised that he was unsure and would check with Sgt Fewings and let us know.

-Door staff complaints – The Police are seeing an incredible number of complaints against door staff.  They have CCTV of door staff doing things the police are not happy with.  Sgt Fewings will be setting up a meeting with Licensees to show them the incidents.  If incidents are able to be justified they will be written off, if not they will be investigated.  There is no time frame for this yet but it will most probably be within the next few weeks as this is something that needs attention immediately.  If your door staff are on the video you should do what you feel is appropriate.  This is a city wide issues although primarily is affecting Guildhall area. The Police advise the door staff to wear the body cams as this is a great way of protecting themselves against false claims.  Bill advised the Police that as a pubwatch group we have suggested that we hold a meeting with our door company representatives to advise them of the current situation and would this be possible for the police to attend.  A date was agreed on Thursday 16^th June to be held at Tiger Tiger at 3pm.  Venue representatives and door company representatives are to attend.  Each venue needs to invite their door company representative – please make sure though that NO door staff themselves attend, just the company representative such as owner or area manager.  Can the Door Company representatives please bring with them a list of door supervisors who work for them and their details to include the SIA numbers and contact details. – UPDATE ONLY LICENCEES TO ATTEND PLEASE – NOT DOOR COMPANY REPRESENTATIVES AS THIS WILL BE THE MEETING TO SHOW THE CCTV

- There is a situation which the Police need to bring to our attention which is asphyxia of customers who are held down in the wrong position, or with their face into the ground. This usually occurs in customers who are intoxicated on drink and drugs and when door staff hold down customers awaiting for police to assist then the customer could be at risk of asphyxia.  The Police have acknowledged that when they assist a situation where a customer is being held down by door staff that they have a duty of care to make sure that customer is ok first before they find out what has occurred.  Door staff are being briefed at their weekly meeting about the situation and to make them aware. 

- The public toilet situation was brought up by the Police – they advised that Inspector Hutchins wanted the toilets to remain open unattended 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  PC Hall advised that there are issues with this, the toilets will be prone to drug use and will probably be vandalised.  The suggestion is to open the toilets on the same nights and times as Safe Space is open, so Friday, Saturday, Bank Holiday Sundays and when Carnage is on.  The Police were advised that we had already discussed the situation in our members meeting and that Drift in The City had volunteered to trial keeping an eye on the toilets in the evening.  The only issue is that they close at 1am so for a few hours the toilets would not be looked after.  PC Hall advised that the police would check up on the toilets every time they were in the area.  The city is going for Purple Flag status and for this the city needs to have toilet facilities that are clean and available so this issue will need to be addressed in the long term.

 

Any other business

 

- Thank you to Tiger Tiger for holding the meeting and providing doughnuts!

- There were no other issues raised by anyone present.

 

 

THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON THURSDAY 7^th JULY AT THE GUILD HALL

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