Police give out 10,000 sweets in bid to keep rowdy students quiet

Police have bought 10,000 sweets to hand out to students to remind them to be quiet when they come home from a night out.

Officers will hand the rock sweets, which bear the messages ‘Quiet Please’ and ‘Shush’, to drinkers in Durham.

These will be reserved for busy nights in the city and handed out when officers feel revellers need a reminder to keep the noise down as they make their way home.

The idea follows complaints about rowdy students in residential areas.

Launched as part of the ongoing Safe City campaign, funding for the initiative came from a number of organisations including Durham County Council, the city's PubWatch scheme, Durham University and Teikyo University of Japan in Durham.    Read More