Halloween – Advice from the Police

Posted: 15/10/2025

Do

  • Remember road safety and wear bright clothing while ‘trick or treating’
  • Keep Halloween ‘tricks’ safe
  • Be considerate to others
  • Keep your distance from fireworks
  • Go to an organised fireworks display – it’s the safest way to enjoy them

Don’t

  • Go ‘trick or treating’ alone, take an adult with you
  • Cause damage to people’s homes or property
  • Handle fireworks if you’re under 18
  • Knock on strangers’ doors
  • Scare or hurt others
  • Let off fireworks in a public place or anywhere between 11pm and 7am*

*Except on November 5th when the curfew is midnight and for Diwali, New Year’s Eve and Chinese New Year, when fireworks can be let off until 1am.

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