POLICE in Blackpool and the Fylde will be putting strict safety measures in place to ensure Jubilee revellers in the resort don't get too carried away with celebrations this weekend.

Operation Arrival aims to ensure people have a good time during the celebrations as well as ensuring they do so in a responsible manner and without breaking any laws.

This will particularly apply to street parties where those taking part should be aware they need special permission to take alcohol onto the streets.

The operation will involve high-profile targeted policing in and around the town centre as and where it is most needed. Volunteers have also been recruited to hand out leaflets on the major car parks warning drivers about car crime.

Chief Inspector Richard Bayly, the officer leading Operation Arrival, said: "The constabulary's 'Safer Streets in Lancashire' campaign supports Operation Arrival and aims to reduce crimes associated with drink, particularly violent crime. We are currently working with our partners in Blackpool to make the town centre a safer place for people to visit and work in.

"Our operation will provide reassurance to local people and visitors that police are tackling their main concerns surrounding crime and disorder issues. We know the majority of residents and visitors are law abiding and we want to encourage them all to have a good time in the resort.

"At the same time we will be targeting the minority of individuals who want to spoil the Jubilee celebrations for everybody else.

"Preventing, detecting and delivering speedy justice to offenders will be a key aim of Operation Arrival over this two-week period."

Joe Curran, spokesman for the Town Centre's Licensee Forum, said: "Our main concern over the forthcoming weekend and the World Cup period is the fact that alcohol will be on sale from 7am in the morning.

"This means that people may enter pubs or clubs and have a drink at this time and then get in their car and drive to work. We are running a special compact disc campaign to try and counteract this. It will involve pubs and clubs playing a compact disc which contains a bold warning about drinking and driving."

"The other issue which we will be looking at very seriously is stopping people taking drinks and bottles from pubs and clubs and going on to the streets."