Coronavirus lockdown: 'Rushed laws create deeply unhelpful grey areas for police and public'

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Confusion is blamed on inconsistencies in official instructions, creating what an ex-officer calls 'deeply unhelpful' grey areas.

However, the legislation conspicuously does not indicate these are the only acceptable explanations.

Derbyshire Police use drones to deter people from breaking the lockdown rules by travelling to remote areas for daily exercise He argued that while individual officers' actions may have contributed to a small number of high-profile incidents, any suggestion the UK was becoming a"police state" were wide of the mark.

"I've heard people suggesting that we're now living in a 'police state', but we're nowhere near other European countries like France, where you have to fill in a form if you want to go out and they have issued huge numbers of fines to people."

 

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There used to be an ancient skill called common sense that humans applied to life.

It’s tragic the amount of people dying to this virus but, The media has created more panic & hysteria that could be worse than the disease On Sky News NOW, they have graph of deaths, how it’s rising, treating it like election results coming in, Scumbags

This is a quickly killing virus. We cant mess about. Zero tolerance is the way forward. Typical UK Political Correctness. Rushed laws. Should we have told the whole nation to come out to the streets, bars, restautants, parks - until we find a less 'Rushed Law'.

Common Sense should be all we need

No surprise there then,

Its a tough period for all of us. All will make mistakes. Its how we rectify them that counts.

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