One of my major concerns is the implications of the drink culture for public order and society generally. The drink culture has an impact not only on public order offences but in other areas which are not so obvious. One of these is the area of sexual offences. It is clear from figures being collated by responsible people that drink consumption has a double effect in that it affects perpetrator behaviour on the one hand and, on the other, the capacity of victims to protect themselves, to give an account of what has happened to them and on their general vulnerability.