POLICE are warning of the dangers of drinking after a spate of arrests following alcohol-related crimes.
A total of 15 people have been arrested in south Worcestershire for drink-driving and being drunk and disorderly in the past eight days.
"Alcohol affects people in different ways," said Chief Insp Martin Lakeman.
"It can make people become aggressive and violent towards other people as well as to property.
"Another sometimes forgotten alcohol-related crime is drink-driving - a crime that can often have fatal consequences."
Teenager
Between Tuesday, October 23, and last Sunday, two people, including a teenager, were arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Droitwich and a further person arrested for drink-driving.
Two people were arrested in Worcester for being drunk and disorderly and a further three for drink-driving. Four extra drink-driving arrests took place in Evesham and Malvern.
On Monday, two more drivers were arrested on suspicion of being drunk at the wheel. Another was stopped in Broadway.
"We will make no apologies for confronting those who put lives at risk because of their drinking or who simply make other people's lives a misery by their anti-social behaviour," added Chief Insp Lakeman.
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