Dorset Police Chief Constable James Vaughan has urged people to stay local during the Covid lockdown THE majority of fines for breaches of Covid regulations in Dorset during the national lockdowns have been issued to people who live outside the country. Dorset Police said 76.3 per cent of the fixed penalty notices (FPNs) issued during the three periods of strict restrictions went to non-Dorset residents. Between March 27, 2020 and January 17, 2021, the force has issued 1,083 FPNs, with almost 200 of these coming since the start of the current national lockdown restrictions on January 6. In the 12 days from January 6 to January 17, 40 per cent of the fines handed out went to people who lived outside Dorset.
Police and councils in Dorset are already working on plans to cope with a massive influx of visitors at Easter and in the summer. The county s police and crime panel heard that they were caught out by the huge numbers which flooded into the county last year as soon as lockdown was lifted. Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill says that although Bournemouth’s beach scenes worried him he was far more concerned by 3,000-plus people crammed onto the beach at Lulworth with virtually no facilities. This week’s police and crime panel heard that at the time nobody was able to get their hands on any low-loaders to take away illegally parked cars blocking roads, or with council partners, to find extra bins or portable toilets.
Chief Constable James Vaughan, inset, has condemned the actions of 19 people who had a party in Bournemouth Picture: Google Maps CHIEF Constable James Vaughan has condemned the actions of the nineteen people who attended a house party at the weekend. The party came just as the government announced it would be increasing the fine for people at gatherings of 15 people or more from £200 to £800, however, the party, in Bournemouth, was held before the rules come into effect. Chief Constable James Vaughan said: The 19 people having a party were wearing hats and had decorations up so they had preplanned the party and were deliberately flouting the rules.
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UK Police Chief: Now Is Really Not the Time for Freedom of Speech, Right to Assembly | 16 Jan 2021 | The chief constable of Dorset Police has urged lockdown protesters to accept that now is really not the time for freedom of speech and the right to assembly. Chief Constable James Vaughan was speaking after the controversial arrest of two women for, seemingly, being recorded leaving home more than once and sitting on a bench, in an incident the police now allege was stage-managed by lockdown protesters, as one of the women is a Covid sceptic although she denies any pre-planning. We appealed to them [the protesters] last weekend to say: Look guys, we respect your right to freedom of speech and right to assembly but now is really not the time, it is too dangerous. Please don t come, we have got other things we need to do, said the chief constable in comments to
The chief constable of Dorset Police has urged lockdown protesters to accept that "now is really not the time" for freedom of speech and the right to assembly. Chief Constable James Vaughan was speaking after the controversial arrest of two women.