City council officials have warned confiscating alcohol from street drinkers encourages shoplifting and aggressive begging.At the start of the year Leicester City Council introduced greater powers for police to take drinks from noisy and rowdy drunks in a move overwhelmingly supported in a public consultation.The council insists the move has helped cut alcohol-fuelled troublemaking in the city but a new report suggests such enforcement alone can have unintended consequences.The report has been...
