COUNCILLORS in Dursley are to write to police “demanding” that they ban an upcoming student night in the town.

It follows a series of anti-social behaviour incidents on Friday last week after an event organised by sixth form students.

At the meeting of Dursley Town Council on Tuesday, councillors agreed to write to police asking that an upcoming event organised for students of two Stroud schools is banned from taking place.

At Friday evening’s event, which was held at Capone’s nightclub, a police officer was injured while trying to arrest one of the attendees in Long Street.

“This is not the first time one of these student nights has led to trouble like this,” Cllr Matt Nicholson said.

“We have seen a lot of trouble with anti-social behaviour connected to these nights in the past and Friday proved no different with one police officer injured trying to calm things down.

“From what I’ve heard, later this month Marling and Stroud High School students will also have a student night at Capone’s and I suggest that we write to the police and Stroud District Council asking - no, demanding - that they stop it happening.”

The council agreed to write to Gloucestershire Constabulary asking for it to apply for an injunction through the court system to prevent the upcoming event taking place.

A police spokesman said that they had been called to one incident which started at 7.40pm when someone tried to get into the nightclub and were denied entry.

One police officer required hospital treatment for a shoulder injury during the arrest of a 17-year-old boy from Stroud on suspicion of assault and assaulting a police officer.

He was released under investigation while police enquiries continue.

The council also heard reports of other anti-social behaviour incidents through the town that night.

Stavros Antonio Praki, who runs Capone’s, said that as a whole the event had gone very well with “a handful” of youngsters causing trouble after they were barred from entering the club.

“The event had been organised by a group of students through us and involved discussions with police and Stroud District Council’s licensing team.

“With 130 tickets sold we had about 120 youngsters inside Capone’s who had a great night, unfortunately there were a handful who decided that the rules didn’t apply to them and caused problems after they weren’t let in.”

Attendees suspected of being drunk were breathalysed by nightclub staff before being allowed in.

The police spokesman added that police licensing officers will be working with Stroud District Council as a result of "disorder-related incidents" connected to student nights held at the premises.