In an action that was cleverly psychological, ice cream music was blasted through the loudspeakers of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) armored Land Rover after the patrol came under attack from about 15 teenagers last weekend on the Twinbrook estate on outskirts of west Belfast. The music stopped bottle-throwing teenagers. “An officer used the vehicle's loudspeaker system to play music to the youths in an effort to use humour to defuse the situation. The youths stopped throwing the bottles. However police accept that this was not an appropriate action. The officer has been spoken to by a senior officer in order to establish the circumstances of the incident.” “It was a very immature way for police to deal with a very serious problem,” said Sinn Fein councilor Angela Nelson. "I would have expected the PSNI to have a more mature outlook and not to come up and play ice cream tunes. Where in the world does a police service say that their way of dealing with anti-social behavior is through humour?”
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