Undercover police officers are being used in a nationwide sting operation on drinkers in the run-up to Christmas.
The unprecedented initiative - part of the Government's clampdown on binge drinking - starts on Friday and will run for four weekends up to 22 December.
The plainclothes officers will be told to monitor whether bar staff are illegally serving alcohol to obviously drunk customers.
They will be in pubs on Friday and Saturday nights over the next four weeks.
Apparently all the serious crime in Britain has been solved- either that or it's much more fun for police to spend their weekends down the pub picking on people out to enjoying their Christmas.
Mark Hastings, director of communications at the British Beer and Pub Association, said: "I think most people will be gobsmacked that the police think it is a priority for them to spend the evening in the pub playing 'spot the drunkard' in the runup to Christmas given all the other policing issues around at the moment."
A spokesman for the Wine and Spirit Trade Association said: "People might well ask what police are doing sitting around in pubs on a Friday and Saturday night."
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