THE attack has led to renewed calls for the police to find a solution to violence on the Island following an angry public meeting where the officers promised to crack down on anti-social behaviour.

David Thurston, the mayor of Portland, said: “There definitely seems to be a regular occurrence of assaults now. People are getting hurt so something has got to be done about it.”

Mr Thurston is hoping another meeting can be held with police so a solution can be found before people take the law into their own hands.

He said: “I sympathise with the police officers and the problem we’ve got is of financial constraints.

“They genuinely don’t have enough police officers to cover the island.”

A South Western Ambulance spokesman confirmed they were called out to attend a young man who had suffered facial injuries, who was taken to accident and emergency at Dorset County Hospital.

He added: “We were then informed that another man had been glassed but he was nowhere to be seen.”

Portland town councillor and local pub landlord Neil ‘Chaz’ Charlton said the police should check the quarry regularly as it is a common site for illegal ‘raves’.

He said: “There was an all-night party there and there was no police presence whatsoever.

“The 17-year-old got a good hiding walking back from there at midnight.

“Why did the police not break the party up anyway because there’s drugs and drink there?”