A CITY centre shop could lose its licence to sell alcohol after being caught selling booze to known street drinkers.
Notts Police is calling for the alcohol licence to be revoked from Arun's Off Licence in Upper Parliament Street, which they claim is a "source of alcohol for the street fraternity".
Officers say that the store's licence holder, Freydun Sakhi, has sold alcohol to drunk people – who are known street drinkers – on at least two occasions, despite warnings.
In a report, which will go before a Nottingham City Council committee next week, Malcolm Turner, deputy head of legal services at Notts Police, states: "The premises management is inadequate and has a laissez-faire attitude.
"By continuing to supply them with alcohol, Mr Sakhi is further fuelling them to cause a nuisance in the locality of the premises."
The report goes on to state: "The police are satisfied that his non compliance and blatant disregard of the law is impacting on the growing issue of street drinkers being rowdy, using intimidating behaviour, littering and thieving in the locality."
Trading standards officer Jane Bailey, at Nottingham City Council, has also complained that more than 30 packs of foreign-labelled "illicit" cigarettes were found in the store that did not display the legal health warnings.
She added: "This incident shows that Mr Sakhi has little concern for public health and safety in general and has a relaxed attitude to his responsibilities as a store holder and a premises licence holder serving the community."
Mr Sakhi told trading standards officers at the time that the cigarettes were for his personal use.
Notts Police have also argued that the CCTV system at the premises has not been maintained, sufficient staff have not been trained to use it – and images have not been available immediately on request.
They also claim that the incident and accident book in the store has not been kept.
A decision about the future of the store's licence will be made by councillors on the special licensing panel on Tuesday, November 6.
Mr Sakhi refused to comment.
