The interesting thing on this is that the 'incident' supposed to have happen some 18 months before the ban came into force. Supposidly a drunken youth was seen giving a nurse verbal.
It only came to light when the local radio station aired some programme about the way service personnel were being treated by the 'public', someone phoned in and made the comments. And it went on from there.
As has been said, the AFCO guys have/had no problem with walking around town, as with the TA guys from London Road. Good on them.