The Gallery - June 2007 is now available - please call into our offices for a copy if you have not already picked one up from the LicenceWatch Meeting.

Please Note: The Gallery is only available from the LicenceWatch Meetings and from People United Against Crime Offices, it will not be posted out.

Photographs will be published in the quarterly publications "The Gallery", in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers and the leisure industry. Publications will be available at the quarterly meetings and from the Liaison Officers. Licensees should abide by those guidelines. Anyone failing to do so will not receive a copy. They are as follows: -

Photographs are for the exclusive use of Sheffield Licensees and their staff.

No photographs of persons excluded from licensed premises by the court or Licence Watch will be shown to members of the public.

Licensees will agree to dispose of all photographs when the expiry date of any exclusion order comes into being or to return them to the police personally.

The photographs are the sole responsibility of the licensee.

Licensee details i.e. name, address, telephone number, will be maintained on computer database to allow circulation of relevant infomation and literature.

Photographs must never be copied, circulated elsewhere or removed from the premises.

Under normal circumstance, when an incident occurs at licenced premises the police are requested to attend and deal with the situation and the offender. You may then be asked to supply the officer dealing with the incident with a statement of events. It is at this point that you should ask the officer to include in that statement that you would like the courts to issue an Exclusion Order against the offender when s/he is found guilty and sentenced. The courts will then take into consideration when the offender appears before them. When an exclusion order is imposed the Licensing Department will be informed and any available photograph of that person will be published in accordance with the guidelines in the tri-annual publication 'The Gallery'

In order to standardise the procedure towards obtaining a Sheffield LicenceWatch exclusion order the following actions must take place.

If an incident occurs on or nearby licensed premises, which result in the licensee either:-

Ejecting the offender or

Requesting police assistance to eject the offender

AND

The incident is of such a nature that the licensee feels he/she should be excluded from all licensed premises in the zone or area. He should forward a letter to the committee or the Police Liaison Officer outlining the circumstances of the incident. A pro-forma letter is enclosed in your membership pack and further copies are availale from the LicenceWatch Office at People United Against Crime. download a copy of the ban pro-forma - click here

The contents of the letter will be outlined to the committee prior to the next meeting. The licensee is invited to that meeting to outline the circumstances personally, if they wish. A decision as to whether or not that person should be excluded will then be made.

If the decision is to exclude, a letter will be sent to the offender informing him / her of the decision.

Should that person then enter licensed premises they should be asked to leave immediately. Should they refuse the Police should be contacted with a request for assistance to eject that person.

In order that all licensees are aware of the committee decision the details will be published in the next issue of 'The Gallery', together with a photograph (if available)

If an incident occurs on licensed premises and the Police are requested to attend and arrest any person, the licensee should contact the arresting officer either at the time (if practicable) or immediately after the incident, and request that a court exclusion order be sought on that person.

When the offender attends court the Magistrates will consider the circumstances and a decision will be taken whether or not to impose a Court Exclusion Order.

If a court order is imposed, and that person enters licensed premises, the licensee should ask that person to leave the premises. The police can also be contacted with a request that he / she be ejected. If the licensed premises concerned happen to be one of those listed on the exclusion order, the police can then take further action as he / she is in contravention of a Court Order.

Licensees must ensure that all staff are made aware of current Exclusion Orders within the city. Photographs are published tri-annual in 'The Gallery' and all staff should be encouraged to view this publication.