2007
Consumer Direct Yorkshire & the Humber will be distributing more than 5000 promotional polycarbonate glasses across the region’s nightspots this Christmas in support of West Yorkshire Police’s Violent Crime reduction Strategy.
West Yorkshire Police are urging pubs and clubs to consider replacing their glassware with polycarbonate in an effort to reduce the number of glass injuries in licensed premises. The polycarbonate glasses look and feel like real glass but they are virtually unbreakable and very safe.
PC Mick Warburton, Force Licensing Officer said:
'The use of polycarbonate is very much a preventative measure to reduce injury caused by glass. We are fully committed to working together with the licensed trade to deploy polycarbonate vessels on a risk assessment basis at venues in order to reduce the opportunity for alcohol related crime and disorder.'
Quote from Graham Hebblethwaite, Chief Officer West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service said:
‘I am fully supportive of this initiative, working in partnership with our community and local licensed premises is vital if this makes our community a safer place to live and it’s a great opportunity to promote the Consumer Direct brand.'
NOTES
1. Consumer Direct is a telephone and online consumer advice service managed by the Office of Fair Trading. It offers consumers clear, practical and impartial advice and information.
2. The eleven partner authorities that make up Consumer Direct Yorkshire and the Humber are: York, East Riding, Hull, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Rotherham, West Yorkshire, Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley and North Yorkshire. The service was launched in August 2004.
3. Consumer Direct has around 350 trained advisers in 11 centres based in London, the South East, the South West, the East of England, the West Midlands, the East Midlands, Wales, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, the North East and Scotland.
4. The information and advice helpline is available on a single national telephone number - 08454 04 05 06 from 0800 – 1830 Monday to Friday, and 0900 – 1300 Saturday, excluding bank holidays and public holidays.
5. A Welsh-speaking Consumer Direct service is available on 08454 04 05 05. Minicom users should call 08451 28 13 84.
6. Calls to the Consumer Direct 0845 numbers are charged at no more than four pence per minute from a BT landline. Call charges from other landline providers or mobile phones may vary. Please check the rate with your phone service provider.
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