OFFICERS Anderson and Williams from the West Midlands police force are on the beat in Magaluf as part of a scheme to stop tourists behaving badly.
British and German police have been deployed in the resort area of Calvià, Mallorca to keep their 'own' holidaymakers in order, on the assumption that young and out-of-control revellers will respond more readily to officers of their own nationality and feel less 'above the law' if they think they will have to face trouble once they get back home from their trip.
A male and female officer in British police uniform have been patrolling Magaluf beach and the Punta de Ballena strip, popular with nightclubbers.
Police from Germany, France and Italy – nine officers in total – will be stationed in the main resort areas of the Balearic Islands all summer, including Palma beach, a regular haunt for young German partygoers, and the club districts of Ibiza.
Anderson and Williams will spend next week in Sant Antoni de Portmany, one of Ibiza's most heavily-frequented nightlife areas.
The German Polizei, the French Gendarmerie and Italy's answer to the Guardia Civil, the Carabinieri have been in the Balearics since July 1 and will stay until August 30, although the two British officers have only just joined the team.
Magaluf hit the front pages of British tabloids last summer with graphic pictures of young travellers engaging in public sex acts, falling down drunk, taking drugs and other anti-social actions, causing an outcry from residents and authorities who are sick of seeing their beautiful island portrayed as a den of alcohol-fuelled iniquity.
Most of the guilty parties in Magaluf tend to be British youngsters aged between 16 and approximately 23, usually in groups of friends and sometimes on their first-ever foreign holiday without their parents.
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