{"id":224710,"date":"2021-01-10T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T08:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224710"},"modified":"2021-01-12T07:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:15:40","slug":"covid-crackdown-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224710","title":{"rendered":"Covid Crackdown: Tougher Policing of Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Police &#8216;are told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just ONE verbal warning&#8217; as three officers &#8216;arrest a woman for sitting on a bench&#8217; and another is surrounded for &#8216;leaving her house more than once&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Officers will &#8216;move through the gears&#8217; and fine people \u00a3200 if they think a person is flouting the restrictions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It comes as footage showed three police officers surrounding a woman for leaving her house more than once<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Another four officers appear to arrest a different woman for what she claims was &#8216;sitting on a bench&#8217; by sea<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meanwhile Priti Patel defended police over the breaches &#8211; stressing there is a &#8216;need for strong enforcement&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James Gant \u2013 Daily Mail Jan 10, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_223599\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Police-arrest-an-anti-lockdown-protester-in-central-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-223599\" class=\"wp-image-223599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Police-arrest-an-anti-lockdown-protester-in-central-London.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Police-arrest-an-anti-lockdown-protester-in-central-London.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Police-arrest-an-anti-lockdown-protester-in-central-London-480x319.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-223599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is arrested at an anti-lockdown protest in central London. click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police have been told to fine Covid rule-breakers after just one verbal warning in another ramping up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus-lockdowns\/index.html\"><strong>lockdown<\/strong><\/a> enforcement, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers will &#8216;move through the gears&#8217; and\u00a0charge people \u00a3200 if they think a person is flouting the restrictions and they will not go home when asked once.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as footage emerged showing three police officers surrounding a woman for allegedly leaving her house more than once in a day.<\/p>\n<p>Another four officers appear to arrest a different woman for what she claims was &#8216;sitting on a bench&#8217; on the seafront.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Priti Patel defended the way police have handed out fines for breaches, stressing there is a &#8216;need for strong enforcement&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Forces across England have urged people to stay home and avoid travelling as they continue to fine Covid rule-breakers.<\/p>\n<p>Several constabularies issued the message on Saturday as doctors said pressure on the NHS from coronavirus could get worse in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere key workers became some of the first to be vaccinated against coronavirus at a mass vaccine hub in Newcastle as the government ramps up distribution of the jabs in the hope of ending lockdown by spring.<\/p>\n<p>People were pictured being given injections at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle on Saturday &#8211; one of seven centres that are due to open to the elderly and vulnerable on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Boris Johnson pledged to vaccinate hundreds of thousands people per day by Friday with the aim of giving 13million the jab before Easter, allowing lockdown restrictions to be significantly loosened.<\/p>\n<p>The mass vaccination hubs &#8211; located in Newcastle,\u00a0Manchester, London,\u00a0 Stevenage,\u00a0Surrey,\u00a0Bristol and Birmingham &#8211; can treat up to four people per minute and will work alongside GP surgeries and other facilities to try and hit the Prime Minister&#8217;s ambitious target.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9130133\/Police-told-fine-Covid-rule-breakers-just-ONE-verbal-warning.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of Britons are now living under virtual house arrest. This is NOT about containing Covid-19. Previous lockdowns didn\u2019t work and this won\u2019t either. This is about coercing people into getting vaccinated so that they can go back to living normally  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224715,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224710\/revisions\/224715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}