Durham's Chief Constable on Personal Responsibility

After three Durham University students drown in the river Wear in fourteen months Durham’s Chief Constable has refused to increase Police patrols.

Chief Constable Mike Barton said it was ‘ludicrous’ for officers to be put on riverbanks to stop ‘bright young things falling in.’

He said ‘one thing connected these three young men who died in the river and that was they were so paralytically drunk they were not in control of their bodies.’

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31145108

I have to say I’m inclined to agree with him.