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Article: Massive crackdown on festive drinkers; Police plan 3am blitzes to curb city centre violence and disorder
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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DRUNKEN revellers will be kept under control by a massive police
operation this festive season.
Dozens of officers will patrol "hot spots" in Glasgow city centre
when clubs empty in the early hours of the morning.
The operation - called the city centre plan - aims to deter
violence and disorder, and reassure Christmas partygoers.
Police have identified the hour between 3am and 4am - when tens of
thousands of revellers spill on to the streets - as the peak time for
violence.
Over coming weeks, the city will be busier than normal, with
hundreds of parties taking place. And police are determined the