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Your responsibilities
As a host, you have a duty-of-care for the safety and wellbeing of your guests. While you want them to have a good time you also want to minimise the potential for harm to persons and property as a result of excessive alcohol consumption or gatecrashers. You could be held partly or fully responsible for something that happens to one of your guests at your party.
The guide Your Party, Your Responsibility (HP 1890) provides tips you should consider before, during and after your party to ensure everyone has a good time and stays safe. These tips cover invitations, food, drinks, entertainment, transport, safety, assistance and noise etc. This guide is available at the Drug and Alcohol Office's website.
Hosting a party for teenagers
The guide Hosting a Party for Teenagers (HP 1889) provides information and advice for parents when considering hosting a party with teenagers or allowing them to attend a party elsewhere. This guide is available at the Drug and Alcohol Office's website.
Register your party
Please register your party with WA Police 7 days before your party or event.
Only parties / events to be held in Western Australia can be registered with WA Police.
As responsible hosts you are also encouraged to register your party with local police so that, if trouble does arise, the police can respond quickly and effectively.
Registering your party does not mean that it is an invitation for the police to come into your home. Police will not attend a registered party unless:
- There is a specific request to do so either from the party, from a neighbour or from a concerned parent; or
- It is in the public interest in order to maintain community order and safety.
The information you provide on the party registration form will be kept in strict confidence and used only by police in the event police need to respond to an incident at your party.
Please note: registering your party with WA Police does not mean that police will provide security for your party and that the capacity of police to undertake patrols of party venues or to visit a party venue in the event of trouble will depend on other demands on resources at the time and the nature of the event in question.
Party Safe Poster
You can put the Party Safe poster on display at the entrance to your party, to inform invited guests and potential gate crashers that your party is registered with the WA Police. (Note: the Party Safe poster is A3 size but can be printed to fit on A4 paper)
Contacting police: For police assistance at your party call 131 444 or in an emergency call 000.
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