Police had to put off enforcing new coronavirus laws because of the delay from Matt Hancock, it has emerged, as Dame Priti Patel gave evidence on Thursday.
Police had to put off enforcing new coronavirus laws because they only received the legislation signed off by Matt Hancock 16 minutes before it was meant to be enforced, theMartin Hewitt, the former chairman of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said on Thursday he had to tell then-home secretaryCovid inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett criticised some “bad” legislation drawn up during the pandemic in a hearing focusing on the extraordinary powers handed to police.
“I had a conversation and was very clear with the home secretary at the time that we would not be enforcing that regulation on that day and it was going to take us probably… 24/36 hours to actually get to a place where I was confident police officers out there knew what they needed to do.” Baroness Hallett criticised legislation giving police the powers to direct people to be tested for Covid-19 and enforce medical directions.
An officer from Avon and Somerset Police chats with a passenger as they carry out Covid operations at Bristol Airport in 2021.“It’s something we need to get into whether, or when, we have another pandemic, we have on the books ready to go legislation that’s better than this.”“How on earth one forms a reasonable ground to suggest that somebody has or may be infected with a virus you can’t see seems to me quite a challenge in a practical sense,” he said.
Mr Hewitt said people becoming “fed up with the regulations” sapped “away at the morale of the officers who are just trying to do their job in pretty difficult circumstances”.
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