{"id":109009,"date":"2020-05-13T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=109009"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:27:33","slug":"police-have-no-powers-to-enforce-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/police-have-no-powers-to-enforce-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Have No Powers To Enforce Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Starting from today, people are allowed to take unlimited exercise, and see other people outside of the household as long as they stick to social distancing rules.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15795\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15795\" class=\"wp-image-15795 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/skynews-police-officers-attacked_4845309.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police have no powers to enforce social distancing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But, a new report suggests that police have no longer got the necessary powers to enforce social distancing measures upon the public.<\/p>\n<p>New guidelines from Police suggest the new &#8220;government guidance is not enforceable, for example two-metre distancing, avoiding public transport or the wearing of face coverings in enclosed spaces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The advice was supposedly released today, and is active as of today, too.<\/p>\n<p>But, even though the police can\u2019t tell you what you can and can\u2019t do anymore, they can still fine you and report you. As lockdown measure decrease, fines will increase from \u00a360 to \u00a3100 in England from May 13 onwards, doubling in price for each new offence that the same offender commits.<\/p>\n<p>The fine \u201ccap\u201d for repeat offenders is capped at \u00a33,200, sources suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester has become notoriously bad for residents breaking lockdown rules, with VE Day weekend being dubbed \u2018the busiest weekend since lockdown began,&#8217; with over 5000 complaints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from today, people are allowed to take unlimited exercise, and see other people outside of the household as long as they stick to social distancing rules. But, a new report suggests that police have no longer got the necessary powers to enforce social distancing measures upon the public. New guidelines from Police suggest the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,101,43],"class_list":["post-109009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109019,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109009\/revisions\/109019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}