Police chiefs across the UK have imposed Asbo-style bans in city and town centres giving officers additional powers to break up Easter gatherings. This includes the power to confiscate items such as alcohol. Those who breach certain orders can be jailed for up to three months or fined up to £2,500. The Telegraph has the story.
Police chiefs have imposed Asbo-style bans in city and town centres across the UK giving officers extra powers to break up groups of Easter revellers.
The dispersal orders allow officers to require anyone aged over 10 engaged in or likely to participate in “anti-social behaviour” to be banned from an area for up to 48 hours.
They also get powers to confiscate items such as alcohol and anyone in breach of the order by refusing to leave or returning within 48 hours can be jailed for up to three months and/or fined up to £2,500.
The move follows large groups of people gathering in city centres this week to celebrate the easing of lockdown and enjoy the warm Spring weather, leaving police struggling to break them up and huge mounds of litter that council officers have had to clear up.
Manchester has issued a 48-hour disposal order for the entire city centre until Saturday 3pm after a rave saw major breaches of Covid regulations and social distancing being disregarded by hundreds of young people.
Warm weather, coupled with lockdown fatigue, has drawn people out of their homes this week, much to the disappointment of the Government which has urged people not to “blow it“.
Inspector Jonathan Shilvock, of Greater Manchester police’s city division, says:
This week we have seen an increase in antisocial behaviour as people gather in large groups and are hostile towards our officers who attempt to engage with them and explain the coronavirus legislation which remains firmly in place even with some of the restrictions now being lifted.
This type of irresponsible behaviour causes concern for local residents and has a negative impact within the community.
I would like to reassure the public that you will see an increased police presence in the area and our officers will be enforcing the dispersal order where appropriate and issuing fixed penalty notices for breaches of Covid legislation.
Dispersal orders have been imposed in many other areas across the country, including Leeds, Shrewsbury town centre and Nottingham.
Earlier this week, police chiefs warned that the “Rule of Six” is almost unenforceable, but today’s news contradicts reports that, because of this difficulty, officers will take a more “permissive” approach than in lockdown.
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It seems that the police are suffering from the wider malaise that has become almost the norm – that the biggest turds have risen to the top of the shit-heap. It’s an intensification of a general old management problem that has now gone critical.
We see it everywhere, but particularly in politics, academia, schools and in the management of the NHS.
… and in that sense it wasn’t ‘ever thus’ to this degree.
Hooray for young people who may not be gathering for reasons of political ideology but good for them anyway.
Is there anybody out there who used to organise rural raves back in the 90’s and beyond ?
These you will remember were pop-up outdoor music parties attended by many hundreds who would meet in various locations (motorway service area car parks being a favorite) with nobody knowing the actual location until the last minute so as to foil the Police who thought it important to close down kids having a good time in an empty field and all without the benefit of the internet.
Successful events would last overnight and sometimes into the following day.
I think Biker (knownasbiker) over on the swamp used to and looks like he is thinking of starting again.
This sums up our situation perfectly
Talk about doublespeak. By ‘antisocial behaviour’ they mean ‘social behaviour’.
There is something seriously wrong with a regime that defines antisocial behaviour as a group of young people getting together to have a good time. Even Professor Fuckwit will agree that young people have zero risk of contracting covid. Don’t tell me that they go home and give it to granny. Any self respecting granny would be out with them if they weren’t behind bars in a care home.
Just listening to the Good Friday meditation from Canterbury cathedral and reflecting that if Jesus and the disciples, gathered in the garden of Gethsemane, were to teleport to the UK here today, they would be nicked once again.
LS 14th Sept. 2020
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How many fines or people arrested outside Batley School this week 🤔
Steyn yet again sums up the utterly self defeating attempts of the UK police to bully the law abiding.
( There will be no attempt to enforce this in the edgier housing estates, vibrant communities or Pikey encampments)
“ ‘In Britain, everything is policed except crime’
It has become very apparent that British policemen are very aggressive when dealing with the passive, and very passive when dealing with the aggressive.”
We watched a two-part documentary on police in Manchester dealing with organised crime gangs.
They nicked one guy on suspicion of kidnap and assault. He was seriously mouthing off and threatening the police in the custody suite. They all just stood well back from him as he stormed about making his threats.
I couldn’t help but think that if he’d been a 47 year old man who’d lost his business and was peacefully protesting in Trafalgar Square it would have ended up very different.
As the flu season comes to an end our autocratic government turns up the heat.
It’s time for the younger generation to push back or be suffocated.
Off topic but relevant.
I’ve just had a phone call from my 21 year old granddaughter. She had just been in contact with a friend of hers from university who told her that another girl she had worked with had just passed away after suffering a stroke (caused by a blood clot).
The girl in question had returned home from university about 2 weeks ago when she had the AZ vaccine.
The vaccine passport requirement is putting pressure on ALL people – young and old – to take this vaccine. It needs to stop.
I 100% agree Mayo. A sad story. These vaccines are for emergency use for the hyper-vulnerable (if they want them) – but the goalposts shift and will end up with newborns being jabbed ‘incase they infect granny’ if we’re not careful
The reservations about the snake-oil apply as much to the vulnerable as anyone else.
Very sad but why would a 21yo (presumably) have had a vaccine since that age group have not yet been ‘offered’ it ?
Healthy young people receiving Covid vaccine in parts of …https://www.theguardian.com › world › jan › healthy-y…
Okey dokey, market rules then.
Ffs. Why on earth shouldn’t people gather. The old, the vulnerable and the cretins have all had the marvelous vaccine. No one else is of any higher risk from Covid than they would be of anything else. So why the actual fuck should anyone give a toss. And why would we ‘blow it’. How? And if the vaccine’s so shit that we have to be locked down forever why the fuck do they want a passport to prove you’re still about to drop dead from the deadly virus. This is driving me insane. Why are people so absolutely moronic as to believe any of this shit any more. Thank god for this site and left lockdown sceptics and the very very few other sensible people still left.
lockdown for a year and relentless propaganda has driven the population hysterical
when you look at nazi germany and say ‘it couldnt happen here’ – well it could and it has and we know who would have done it. A big lie repeated enough and some people will accept anything including a mass vaccination of children with something straight out of the lab
I don’t really understand the basis of this, are we now making up laws on the hoof to crush any normal human behaviour? Oh wait, that’s been going on over a year already. Where is the legal system hiding?
Dear Police and Government,
If you don’t want people to gather and socialise and have fun outside in parks and on beaches then open the pubs and the bars and the clubs.
Problem solved.
Too easy? Doesn’t fit with the mysterious and nefarious agenda?
I see. And so do many others.
“the police are operating as gatekeepers of rather than facilitators to lawful protest.” (Source: https://threader.app/thread/1377951144446689281)
After 72 years, I truly do not recognise my country any more and as for the majority of my fellow countrymen and women: DON’T GET ME STARTED!!!
Do the gestapo police now have the authority to make up bans as & when they want? Am I presume that as government ‘restrictions’ are lifted, the unelected are bringing in their ‘restrictions’ to replace them? People in the UK think dictatorships in other countries are reprehensible but fail to see we are under the most despicable and draconian restrictions in the world in this country. We have labelled anti social distancing as ‘social’ and now NOT breaking the law is anti-social? The police are unable to police so they just criminalise everyone by default., They should direct themselves at tackling real crime but I think they prefer to appear in reality TV shows or Haribo adverts. Not fit for purpose.
Treat people like kids and they’ll act like kids. Stop all this nanny state BS NOW!
If you don’t want the gestapo to ‘confiscate’ your legal alcoholic beverage try decanting it. There are some excellent bottles around that keep drinks cold for hours.
Get stuffed Handjob. You blew it months ago!
Where is LS disgust at this. Why is TY and the gang just reporting on this as if this is in any way acceptable? For what reason are these gatherings a risk. Okay, these young kids were being tested every two days. They have been gathering in school for the past two weeks. You top story admits this has had ZERO EFFECT on infections. So why the fuck would gathering over a park (as opposed to indoors) be more of a risk. Take away my alcohol well good luck with that. Please come and try and take away my drink. I really hope pain is something you enjoy!!
Where is LS disgust at this. Why is TY and the gang just reporting on this as if this is in any way acceptable?
That’s what we Swamp-dwellers keep asking!
This week we have seen an increase in antisocial behaviour as people gather in large groups and are hostile towards our officers who attempt to engage with them and explain the coronavirus legislation
Politely telling the interfering cops to F.Off is presumably anstisocial behaviour?
I would like to reassure the public that you will see an increased police presence in the area
Reassure? FFS!!!
The only anti social morons are the Thugs in Uniform. When it a “crime” to meet your mates it proves that we are no longer civilised and live in a fascist police state.