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:
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.
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.
"....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.
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