{"id":296406,"date":"2021-01-07T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=296406"},"modified":"2021-01-07T14:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:33:43","slug":"priti-patel-says-police-will-question-public-when-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/priti-patel-says-police-will-question-public-when-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Priti Patel Says Police Will Question Public When Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Priti Patel has said that police will continue to question the public about why they are outside, in a bid to keep people at home if they\u2019re not out for essential reasons.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 800 people have already been fined for not obeying lockdown rules since the end of December, and that number is likely to continue to rise, as police are being urged to challenge people.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Secretary told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme that: \u201cIt\u2019s right that police act robustly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when asked about whether people will be challenged for sitting on park benches, she said: \u201cPolice have done that, let\u2019s be very clear about this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout this coronavirus pandemic, during the last lockdown, the police have been asking individuals why are they out and about and should they be out and about, when the message right now is stay at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inquisitive nature of the police is most likely to be enforced in London, as the force said it will be asking more questions about why people are out and about.<\/p>\n<p>London has the highest virus infection rate at the moment, and with people still flouting lockdown rules, such as a woman hosting over 100 people on New Year\u2019s eve, it\u2019s no doubt the police are trying to crack down harder on people potentially spreading the virus carelessly.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who hosted the NYE party faces a fine of \u00a310,000, after police discovered the gathering in Kensington, in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priti Patel has said that police will continue to question the public about why they are outside, in a bid to keep people at home if they\u2019re not out for essential reasons.\u00a0 Over 800 people have already been fined for not obeying lockdown rules since the end of December, and that number is likely to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":114827,"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":[1802,1810,1871,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-296406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-news","tag-coronavirus-uk","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296406","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=296406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296407,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296406\/revisions\/296407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}