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Police will ask for the current “Declared Public Precinct” powers, now limited from 6pm to 6am Friday and Saturdays in the west end, to be extended across the entire week and for the defined area to be “reviewed”.

The current Declared Public Precinct zone (via SAPOL).

Though SAPOL would not reveal the proposed geographical expansion of the DPP, the changes would give police the power to remove individuals from the defined area every night, along with powers to conduct searches for drugs and with metal detectors and to ban anyone behaving “in an offensive or disorderly manner” for up to 24 hours.