A Brit travelling back to England from France on Eurostar yesterday was accosted by armed French police and left stranded in Lille because he was wearing the "wrong type of mask".
Scotland Yard has been prompted to issue advice about the powers held by the police and for those approached by an undercover officer, with a former Senior Officer saying: "If you're really concerned dial 999."
In the same month that Wayne Couzens abused Covid rules to kidnapped Sarah Everard, ministers were urged to “roll back the extensive powers unwisely handed to the state” and to the police.
Not our job: Australia’s NSW Police Commissioner refuses to comply with a Government diktat that officers must help bar the unvaccinated from restaurants, cafes and pubs.
Headteachers have been told to call the police if parents concerned about the vaccination of their healthy teenager children against Covid ('anti-vaxxers', as the media puts it) protest outside school gates.
One of the organisers of a recent anti-lockdown protest in Sydney has been sentenced to eight months in prison for helping to plan an "unauthorised" demonstration.
A British father has been sentenced to six weeks in prison in Singapore for not wearing a face mask on public transport and for harassing the police sent to arrest him. In court, he called the proceedings “preposterous”.
An elderly Sydney widow has written to the Australian saying she was arrested for exercising near her home, highlighting the lengths to which the Australian authorities are going to make citizens abide by lockdown rules.
Australia is using its army to enforce strict 'Zero-Covid' lockdown measures, with helicopters flying over parts of the country telling rule-breakers: "You will be found and fines issued."
The ability of the police to deal with crime is being stunted by the "pingdemic", with officials saying that response times are "under strain" due to staff shortages caused by self-isolation rules.
