PUT yourselves in the frame or stay out of our pubs!
That is the message from Cirencester landlords, who are taking revolutionary new steps to tackle drunken troublemakers.
Frustrated at not being issued photographs of 'banned' individuals, the town's BOBS (Behave or be Banned Scheme) is inviting offenders to submit their own.
And the group, which was set up two years ago in a bid to keep 'undesirables' out of local pubs, says anyone who takes up the offer will have their ban cut substantially.
New BOBS chairman Dave Watson said: "Although a lot of people who are banned accept it, there are still one or two who continue to flout it. "Some people who are on the list could be there for the rest of their lives because they keep ignoring the ban.
"The bans are for either 18 or six months, but if someone voluntarily gives us a passport photo, the ban could be reduced to 12 or three."
BOBS meets each month to discuss cases and decide who should be banned and for how long. A list of those barred is pinned up in all member premises.
BOBS was originally piloted in Stroud and police have started issuing landlords in the town with photographs of offenders.
But snaps have not yet been handed to Cirencester landlords, who say staff can find it difficult to identify exactly who they're looking for.
The 'volunteer' picture scheme is seen as a way around the problem and BOBs members are set to visit Ripley in Derbyshire where it has already been introduced.
Mr Watson, who runs the Wheatsheaf Inn in Cricklade Street, said: "Licensees are being made to be more and more responsible for their actions. We're trying to safeguard our livelihood."
Police spokesman Steve Partridge said they were waiting to see how successful the Stroud picture scheme is before making a decision in relation to Cirencester.
He said: "There are issues surrounding data protection laws and human rights legislation, but the constabulary is confident the system does not breach these.
"The possibilities of transferring the system to the Cirencester area is being considered but it has not yet been set up.
"The Cirencester BOBs scheme is managed by the licensees and if they are happy to go down this route of asking banned individuals to voluntarily give up photos of themselves, then the police can see no reason to object."
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