Lockdown UK Police Powers

Lockdown UK Police Powers

If you breach these regulations, the police may:

  • instruct you to go home, leave an area or disperse
  • instruct you to take steps to stop your children breaking these rules if they have already done so
  • take you home, or arrest you, where they believe it necessary
  • issue you with a fixed penalty notice for £60 (reduced to £30 if paid within 14 days). If you have already received a fixed penalty notice, the amount will increase to £120 and double on each further repeat offence, up to a maximum of £960.
  • if you do not pay, you may also be taken to court, with magistrates able to impose potentially unlimited fines.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/full-guidance-on-staying-at-home-and-away-from-others/full-guidance-on-staying-at-home-and-away-from-others#:~:text=If%20you%20breach%20these%20regulations,where%20they%20believe%20it%20necessary

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