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Belfast Businesses Buy Bobbies on the Beat
(Did you see what I did there? )
UNHAPPY with the increasing levels of anti-social behaviour in Belfast, traders have clubbed together to pay for 2 extra police officers to patrol the streets around the city centre.
Obviously the traders think that these measures will help attract people to the city centre and therefore result in increased sales. Similar initiatives have been used on the mainland.
A man who owns 2 chemists in the city-centre said that things in Belfast had improved in recent years but more could be done.
Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson said the extra police would help make Belfast city centre safer. "The police will be dedicated to tackling anti-social behaviour in Belfast and that partnership with the Chamber of Commerce means they will be focusing entirely on the city centre, which I think is a positive thing."
So who knows, with any luck the glue-sniffers at the back of Tesco might even get lifted!