{"id":738693,"date":"2026-08-15T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T09:38:16","slug":"classical-music-helps-cut-chesterfield-mcdonalds-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738693\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical music helps cut Chesterfield McDonald&#8217;s trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In one week in August 2025, at least 18 separate calls for service were made to the control room over problems at McDonald&#8217;s involving groups of young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A decision was made by Derbyshire Police to compose a Problem Management Plan (PMP) for the restaurant and surrounding area at the corner of Chesterfield Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In store, measures were brought in including a playlist of classical music in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wi-Fi and charge points were turned off at certain times, while areas of the restaurant were shut down at night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Body worn video cameras were also worn by some staff members, and McDonald&#8217;s began putting a staff member on the door to grant entry at key times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PMP also introduced regular, targeted patrols, community warning notices for troublemakers, and McDonald&#8217;s bans which were delivered to homes by uniformed officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parents were also visited by police alongside housing providers to warn their child&#8217;s behaviour could lead to eviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chesterfield FC Community Trust also worked with the PMP to offer activities in the town to give young people an alternative to congregating at the fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Insp Josh Carter said by July this year there had been a 70% reduction in calls to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one week in August 2025, at least 18 separate calls for service were made to the control&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}