Victoria Police Superintendent Rod Wilson flagged an electronic database for venues to access and share information on the city's worst boozy offenders.
"I'd love to see it. It'd be fantastic," he said.
"You could share people who are barred or banned, or a whole range of information," he said.
"It might be the next big thing that really cleans this city up."
Supt Wilson said bars were increasingly choosing electronic readers or even biometric testing to check ID at their doors.
And if they agreed to opt for compatible systems, a database could be developed with a black list of people banned from the CBD and of serial troublemakers.
Regional areas and Geelong already have tested similar systems, but Supt Wilson said a big investment from Melbourne's much larger bar and club scene, and a clear system to protect the privacy of people's information stored on the database, would be required.
Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said he supported compulsory ID checking, and clubs and police would benefit greatly from access to a black list of troublemakers.
"If we can intervene before people cause trouble, that ability to exclude them from a number of clubs, that's dealing with it before trouble arises" he said.
"The sharing of information is important. If someone is told to leave a premises, this will stop them going down the road to another club ... then the place to go is home."
Legislation introduced earlier this year allows licensees to issue barring orders in their premises.
Currently there is no system for licensees to share information about who they have barred from their premises.
In the 2010-11 financial year 681 banning notices were issued by police in Melbourne's CBD, down by more than 1000 from the year before.
But the number of exclusion notices, which ban troublemakers from the city centre for more than 72 hours, rose by almost half to 73.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Anne Wright
Quelle/Source: Herald Sun, 21.11.2011
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