HENRY DEEDES sees the Home Secretary talking tough about lockdown rule-breakers 

Enter The Enforcer. Priti Patel slowly click-clacked into yesterday’s Downing Street press conference, lower jaw out, forearms bared, camera lens fixed with her best ‘let’s be ‘avin’ ya’ glare. She had come to lay down the law. Too many people were flouting lockdown rules. Or, as she put it, ‘breachin’ regulations’. So once again the … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees the Home Secretary talking tough about lockdown rule-breakers 

Enter The Enforcer. Priti Patel slowly click-clacked into yesterday’s Downing Street press conference, lower jaw out, forearms bared, camera lens fixed with her best ‘let’s be ‘avin’ ya’ glare. She had come to lay down the law. Too many people were flouting lockdown rules. Or, as she put it, ‘breachin’ regulations’. So once again the … Read more

Police are told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just ONE verbal warning

Police have been told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just one verbal warning in another ramping up of lockdown enforcement. Officers will ‘move through the gears’ and charge people £200 if they think a person is flouting the restrictions and they will not go home when asked once. It comes as footage emerged showing three police … Read more

Police are told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just ONE verbal warning

Police have been told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just one verbal warning in another ramping up of lockdown enforcement. Officers will ‘move through the gears’ and charge people £200 if they think a person is flouting the restrictions and they will not go home when asked once. It comes as footage emerged showing three police … Read more

Crime commissioner calls for officers to force entry into homes of suspected rule-breakers

A police force wants powers to force entry into the homes of suspected Covid rule breakers.  West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson has urged the government to give officers power of entry, to help ‘enforce the new regulations more easily.’ The edict comes as Scotland Yard warned its officers will take a harder … Read more

Coronavirus: London MP urges rule-breakers to obey Tier 2 lockdown

A London MP has urged people to follow social distancing rules and said ‘every single person who breaks the rules adds to the chances of us going into Tier Three’ as the city faces a tougher lockdown from next week.   Nickie Aiken, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, issued the warning in … Read more

‘Rule-breakers will put us in Tier Three’: London MP issues last minute plea to stop coronavirus

A London MP has urged people to follow social distancing rules and said ‘every single person who breaks the rules adds to the chances of us going into Tier Three’ as the city faces a tougher lockdown from next week.   Nickie Aiken, MP for the Cities of London and Westminster constituency, issued the warning in … Read more

Police vow to crack down on rule-breakers after officers are called to anti-mask protests

Police have vowed to crack down on lockdown rule breakers after hundreds were arrested and fined over the weekend at illegal raves, protests and a child’s birthday party.  Ministers have said they are prepared to escalate police response to incidents following concern that the public are not committed to the lockdown.  This weekend hundreds of … Read more

Police vow to crack down on rule-breakers after officers are called to anti-mask protests

Police have vowed to crack down on lockdown rule breakers after hundreds were arrested and fined over the weekend at illegal raves, protests and a child’s birthday party.  Ministers have said they are prepared to escalate police response to incidents following concern that the public are not committed to the lockdown.  This weekend hundreds of … Read more

Priti Patel orders police to get tough on Covid rulebreakers

Priti Patel today ordered police chiefs to ramp up their enforcement of coronavirus restrictions as she warned the rule-breaking minority must not be allowed to ‘endanger’ the ‘law-abiding majority’.  The Home Secretary acknowledged that police officers have been ‘working flat out’ during the pandemic.  But she said the Government had provided forces with more resources … Read more