A fortnight of activities to highlight the dangers of alcohol has come to an end.

Safer neighbourhood teams and community safety units have spent the past two weeks working with council licensing and trading standards officers as part of the national alcohol awareness week.

Officers visited licensed premises, made ID checks and ran a number of test purchasing operations throughout the fortnight, along with providing information about the dangers of alcohol to the public.

The Borehamwood & Elstree Safer Neighbourhood team ran a drink drive initiative in the town centre and rural areas, where they breathalysed drivers and educated them about drinking too much alcohol and the dangers of drink-driving.

The community safety unit also joined in and had a stand with leaflets to educate residents and got young people involved in activities, such as trying on beer goggles and trying to walk in a straight line.

The unit also had jugs of coloured water to pour to estimate how much a single shot was. Police said people generally people overestimated the amount a shot was and were drinking three or four times as much as they thought they were.

Sgt Rob Gurney of Hertsmere community safety unit said: “Vast amounts of Police time is unnecessarily spent dealing with the consequences of people consuming too much alcohol.

“Thanks to the support of Hertsmere Borough Council we were able to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking too much in a fun way.

“Over the coming weeks we will be working with community safety partners across Hertsmere to relay a positive message that anti-social drunken behaviour will not be tolerated in the borough.”