{"id":169856,"date":"2020-07-21T15:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=169856"},"modified":"2020-07-21T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T14:46:54","slug":"police-wont-respond-to-shopping-mask-flouting-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/police-wont-respond-to-shopping-mask-flouting-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Won\u2019t Respond To Shopping \u201cMask Flouting\u201d Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Police force in London has said it won\u2019t be responding to calls regarding shoppers not wearing masks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Masks will be mandatory in shops from Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n

From Friday, shoppers will have to wear a face covering by law, with those disregarding it at risk of getting a \u00a3100 fine.<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall\u2019s police chief said officers will arrive at an incident and only enforce the law if violence and\/or disorder is involved.<\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t been made clear how these new rules will be enforced, and some sources suggest that supermarkets have internally agreed not to report shoppers too, because they don\u2019t know who and who doesn\u2019t legally have to wear a mask – for example, asthma sufferers don\u2019t have to comply with the new rules.<\/p>\n

Police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall Alison Hernandez said: \u2018We are moving back into ordinary policing. The expectation is that [police officers] will only come if there is disorder or violence or something associated with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not going to come to every phone call that someone is not wearing a mask.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will just as we do now with Covid, the police work on the four Es so they engage people, they encourage people, they educate people and they enforce \u2013 that may not be the right order \u2013 but they will still be doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

A police officer in London has also relayed this information, as police officers have bigger issues to tackle than those not wearing masks in a shop. Forces are also apparently still waiting to hear what the Polices involvement in the new guidelines are, and how forces can enforce them.<\/p>\n

Detective chief superintendent Stephen Clayman, who is in charge of the police force in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge, told the Barking and Dagenham Post: \u201cIn my view it is simply not a priority for us clearly but of course we will deal with it when we need to.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the moment we have got to concentrate on more pressing things around crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will deal with it exactly the same way, I suspect, as we did with the other Covid rules \u2013 around encouraging and explaining. The fine is the last thing we do if we have to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t see us being any different because this is for people\u2019s wellbeing ultimately. This is to help them and about protecting other people. But I don\u2019t envisage we will be patrolling the aisles of Tesco.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s believed from the information we\u2019ve got so far that there will be little intervention from the police, as it\u2019s difficult to have police in stores dedicating precious time to giving out fines to the public. A policing body has also confirmed that police will only fine and enforce as a \u201clast resort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Police force in London has said it won\u2019t be responding to calls regarding shoppers not wearing masks.\u00a0 From Friday, shoppers will have to wear a face covering by law, with those disregarding it at risk of getting a \u00a3100 fine. Devon and Cornwall\u2019s police chief said officers will arrive at an incident and only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":53009,"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":[1810,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-169856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169856","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=169856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169908,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169856\/revisions\/169908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}