Tuesday 15 June 2021

Is It As Much Of An Embarrassment As The Fact Most Of The Fines Are Overturned?

Up to 10 off-duty police officers were caught at a party that breached coronavirus social distancing rules and were suspended while the police standards office investigates them.
The off-duty officers were discovered breaking the law when their on-duty colleagues from Sussex Police turned up at a large house party in Hove on the evening of May 15th, two days before lockdown restrictions were relaxed.

Whoops! 

A police source speaking to The Telegraph called the incident a “major embarrassment”, especially since the force “have been handing out these draconian £10,000 fines to Covid rule-breakers”.

Yes, they have, but hopefully if they do issue one to their colleagues, they'll actually get it right this time

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3 comments:

MTG 1 said...

Friendless and hated plod...it's now a majority verdict on the UK's hypocritical, bent police. Little doubt remains for a phased-in defunding or complete reformation.

The likes of WC Jaded must yearn for the Good Old Days when they were simply despised.

Anonymous said...

No surprises here then, we have just seen a report that the biggest force in the land the Met is institutionally corrupt. We never see any police around here anyway so I guess it doesn't make much difference to most people if they are corrupt or not. Being a criminal is now a reasonable career choice it seems.

JuliaM said...

"....it's now a majority verdict on the UK's hypocritical, bent police."

Therr's still the 'if not the police, then what?' to deal with.

"...we have just seen a report that the biggest force in the land the Met is institutionally corrupt. "

And we've seen the inevitable shrugging of shoulders from the politicians.