Local bar owners have been put on notice: Woodstock Police are watching. The owner of "Double B Ranch" on Dundas St. has been hit with a dozen charges under the liquor license act. 51-year-old William Wilks faces 6 counts each of permitting drunkenness, and serving an intoxicated person. Woodstock Police Chief Rod Freeman says it should come as no surprise to bar owners that police are watching. "Over the last couple of years, we've made a great effort to educate bar owners that we are out there. We conduct regular routine bar checks with uniformed officers, and we've also now taken steps to use undercover officers, just to watch a little more discreetly what's going on." Freeman believes the root cause of ongoing issues with drunken behaviour downtown leads back to the over-serving of alcohol. "Public drunkenness, urinating in storefronts, vomiting in cabs, that's all unacceptable to 99.9% of our community. We want to make sure the law abiding community doesn't get infringed upon by these drunken people, who have no regard or respect for the rights of others."
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