Saturday night in Southampton

Hello again,
As I am doing nights again for the late night economy operation I thought I would let you know what happened tonight. It was a surprise, but town was absolutely packed tonight. Loads of stag parties going around and loads of people out. The venues were all pleased as there have not been many busy nights in the current financial climate. Amazingly we only had 3 prisoners from the operation tonight, generally speaking everything was quite good natured.

The first prisoner was a chap going into Leisure World. While being searched, as a condition of entry he was found to have a knife in his bag – this is considered to be an offensive weapon, so he came in. The next prisoner was a bloke who has allegedly assaulted his girlfriend in a club. This was in the early hours of the morning and they had drunk quite a bit. We see loads of ‘domestics’ during an evening, but not many get violent. This chap was dragged out of the club, we have provided him with B & B and he will get dealt with later. The third prisoner was arrested for having a load of cannabis on him. Officers received information that he was carrying it, so they stopped him, searched him and found it. Again, he will be sorted out in the morning. There were also at least 3 drink drivers picked up in town tonight.

Nevertheless, the cells are quite full with prisoners being brought in from other parts of the city for burglary and fights amongst other things. This means the teams starting in the morning will be tied up dealing with nights prisoners before they can pick up the other jobs that come in.

Anyway, it means home time for me. I am off now until Wednesday, although I will spend up till lunchtime in bed today. A day to remember with Blackpool at the top of the premiership – well done to them – and thanks to Reading for getting a late goal at Pompey.

See you soon, Cheers

Dick