Speaking in a Covid-19 press briefing today (Wednesday), Mr McManus said: “In terms of the numbers, I think there is no doubt that there will be a spike from the Christmas and New Year period, including New Year’s eve. We know there were some people having house parties. We also know a colloquial report from some supermarket workers who said that the alcohol aisle in one or two places was chaos because people were kind of mixing and that’s enough mixing to pass the virus. There were also people in Hertfordshire who went to demonstrations and got close to people and didn’t wear masks and even outdoors that is enough to transmit the virus.
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Residents in Hertfordshire face a council tax rise to help fund the county s largest ever police force Hertfordshire is on course for its biggest ever police force - but residents will have to stump up extra cash to pay for it. The county currently has 2,100 police officers but police and crime commissioner David Lloyd wants to boost this to more than 2,300 - higher than the record 2,202 Hertfordshire had in 2007. Government funding will pay for 90 new police officers by 2022, but Mr Lloyd says a council tax rise will be needed to help fund an initial further 77 officers. When Hertfordshire residents pay their council tax bill, 77 per cent of it goes to the county council, ten per cent to their district or borough council, two per cent to the town and parish councils, while 11 per cent goes to the police and crime commissioner to spend on policing and crime prevention.
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Police in Hertfordshire used Tasers on children on dozens of occasions last year. Photo: Radar Police in Hertfordshire recorded using Tasers on children on dozens of occasions last year, figures reveal. Home Office figures show Hertfordshire Constabulary drew Tasers on children aged under 18 on 48 occasions in 2019-20, up from 30 the previous year. Officers fired a Taser four times, although none of those involved under-11s. The figures count the number of times each officer involved in an incident used the device rather than the number of separate incidents or how many children were involved. The age recorded is that perceived by the officer.