{"id":9154,"date":"2024-08-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/08\/05\/surrey-police-call-for-pub-licence-review-after-drugs-haul\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T00:00:00","slug":"surrey-police-call-for-pub-licence-review-after-drugs-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/surrey-police-call-for-pub-licence-review-after-drugs-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Police call for pub licence review after drugs haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pub in Surrey could have its licence suspended after police found bags of cocaine and an amount of cash on the premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><em>The BBC<\/em> reported that Surrey Police requested the removal of the designated premises supervisor of The Marquis of Granby, in Redhill, and the suspension of the pub\u2019s licence for up to three months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a report to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council, the force said &#8220;the licensing objectives for the prevention of crime and disorder, and the protection of children from harm, have been undermined\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the three-month licence suspension would allow owners Star Pubs to introduce a new manager, review the pub\u2019s security and implement a number of other licence conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since May 2020, the council has received six complaints about the pub. Four relate to noise from the premises, one to food hygiene and one was a reported violation of covid lockdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers searched the pub on 30 May. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey Police said in its licence application request that, if the licence was to be reinstated, CCTV cameras must be installed at the pub, covering all areas in which alcohol is consumed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force also said staff should receive training every six months, a record must be kept every time someone is refused alcohol, a Challenge 21 or Challenge 25 alcohol ID policy should be implemented and the pub should have a drugs policy which has been approved by the premises licence holder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The licence review application will go before the council on 8 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Star Pubs said: &#8220;Although Star Pubs owns The Marquis of Granby, it is leased to an independent operator to run as their own business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As such, they are responsible for the day-to-day operation of the pub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are currently awaiting the outcome of the police investigation regarding the pub and have not been made aware that the designated premises supervisor has been charged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pub in Surrey could have its licence suspended after police found bags of cocaine and an amount of cash on the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}