Jess Phillips has revealed over 10,000 bar staff across the UK will be trained to deal with spiking incidents as she discussed the government's new legislation. The Home Office minister said a £250,000 budget has been allocated to facilitate the training of bar staff.
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00:00So what we're announcing today is a new crime of spiking, currently spiking sits
00:06across various different pieces of legislation and isn't necessarily that
00:10easy to spot and also charge in the criminal law so we're going to introduce
00:16a new crime of spiking and what we will do at the same time as doing
00:23that because just making a new crime won't necessarily change that much we're
00:27going to change the way that police gather data and report on that data to
00:31make sure we know where the problem of spiking is happening what sort of
00:35spiking is prolific and how we can target measures to try and prevent it in
00:39the future as well as rolling out training for 10,000 bar staff across the
00:44country in pubs just like Norton's in Digbeth where we are today to make sure
00:49that bar staff are trained in how to spot perpetrating behavior support
00:54victims if they've been spiked but also look at evidence gather so that we can
00:59hopefully use that new crime to actually get some justice for some of the
01:03victims.