How do you actually enforce a curfew order when you have got as few police as we have?

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Since the law enabling the councils to impose curfews on ten-year-olds was enacted, no curfew order has been issued.

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Prosecuting Sian Vaughan said Brooks was already the subject of a curfew order, having breached a previous suspended sentence for another matter.

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Judge William Hart sentenced him to a 12-month youth rehabilitation order, including a three-month tagged curfew.

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He was given a 12-month community order that included a Friday-to-Sunday curfew and a three-month pub ban.

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The court heard Tapping had twice breached the order and had received an extra four weeks' curfew as punishment.

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After admitting four counts of assault, he was given a 12-month community order in March that included a Friday-to-Sunday curfew and a three-month pub ban.

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