Covid-19: Policing the coronavirus law breakers
By Laurence Cawley and Dotty Macleod
BBC News
image captionBetween the start of the pandemic and late December, Cambridgeshire Constabulary had issued 280 fines
Since the onset of the pandemic last March, thousands of people across the UK have either been fined or criminally prosecuted for coronavirus-related offences. What is it like for police officers having to tackle the Covid-19 rule-breakers?
Cambridgeshire, with its mix of cities, large towns and rural areas, is a fairly typical English county.
Its inhabitants, however, are far less likely to be fined for coronavirus rule breaches than those in most other parts of the country.