A pensioner was given a police warning after she had a socially distanced cup of tea with her neighbours in their communal garden.
Officers turned up at the 82-year-old’s sheltered housing complex home at 9.45pm to question her about the incident – after she’d settled into bed to watch television.The woman's daughter is understandably furious.
She added her mother did not deserve the warning from police and had been unreasonably disturbed late in the evening.
‘I made a complaint to the police station. As soon as my mum opened the door the worst things began racing through her mind.’
Mrs Magovern said. ‘I really do not understand why the police thought a few elderly folk drinking tea, socially distanced in a communal garden, is a priority.
‘My son works for the London Met and even he could not believe what I was telling him.
‘We all have been left thinking, what a waste of police resources.’
I expect the farce's social media squad is on high alert for criticism of their actions. They aren't backing down, that's for sure - rules is rules, innit?
A Gloucestershire Police spokesman said: ‘An officer has spoken to the complainant and an explanation was provided in response to concerns raised. She was content with this and the matter has been resolved.
‘Police received a report of a potential Covid breach on Tuesday 9 March at 1.30pm suspecting that there was a gathering involving people from multiple households in a residential garden in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham.
‘Covid response officers attended later that day at around 9.45pm where some residents were spoken to and given words of advice around current restrictions.
‘Officers are deployed to incidents based on an assessment of the threat, risk and harm of the incident and in this case officers who are part of the Covid response team and are deployed across the county attended later that evening.’
If you'd attended a few weeks later and at 9am it'd still have been a waste of police time and resources.
"potential Covid breach"
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"Covid response unit"
Must be some kind of special selection process to join that elite unit.
"I'm in the feckin CRU mate. I could hector you to death from 2 socially distant meters"
To me it's obvious there are too many police with too much time on their hands.
ReplyDeleteSo rather than Prime Minister Johnson recruiting 20,000 more of them, he should be reducing the numbers until all the time by those still employed by us, is spent on real crimes and real criminals. And re-learning how to be respectful to their employers, we the taxpayers.
BLM protesters and traveller funerals and the "usual suspects" in their Shisha bars and mosques are exempt, of course
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