TWO UK police officers have been sent to #Magaluf, Majorca, to help their Spanish counterparts deal with troublesome British holidaymakers.
The UK's ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, says their presence ‘will help to remind British holidaymakers of the importance of respecting local laws and custom’.
The officers will be in Magaluf for one week before moving on to spend a week in San Antonio, #Ibiza.
They will initially act as a liaison between Spanish police and young Brits. Magaluf, visited by an estimated one million UK tourists every year, has been dubbed ‘Shagaluf" because of the antics of young holidaymakers.
The town has been trying to improve its image by cracking down on drunkenness and debauchery with new rules that went into effect in June, but the new regulations – which include a ban on drinking alcohol on the street between 10pm and 8am and restrictions on bar crawls – have been ignored by British visitors.
Go Holiday editor David Kernek comments: If two officers can be found for this absurd exercise in futility, is it possible to believe British constabularies when they say do not have sufficient manpower to police the streets of Birmingham, Bolton or Bristol? Call me old fashioned, but other questions this example of Anglo-Spanish co-operation raises are: If the law in Magaluf and on Ibiza is being ignored, is it not the responsibility of the Spanish police and courts to see that it’s enforced? How do our two boys in blue plan to tackle the drunk British louts? Reason with them?
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