Playground Police
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Many a critical line has been published over recent, COVID months, not that far off years, of the sometimes alleged draconian or overreactions of Police when enforcing the Chief Health Officer’s edicts. The latest being the Government closing playgrounds, skate parks and basketball hoops and expecting Police to prosecute any breaches.
As former Chief Commissioner and Chair of the Community Advocacy Alliance Kel Glare has often said, "Police do not get to choose which laws they must enforce".
The focus of the community disquiet has landed at the feet of Policing instead of the feet of the Government and the Chief Health Officer?
Senior Sergeant at Victoria Police, Impaired Driver Programs, Road Policing Command. President Yarrambat Golf Club
3 年The issue is not the children playing, but he parents who continued to congregate, in groups from different households, chatting for hours without masks or social distance. If people did what they were asked to do, then a short lockdown would be just that. But many are too selfish to think beyond their own immediate needs, to think of the wider community, and the front line workers they put in jeopardy when they foolishly spread the virus. Stay home means stay home. People need to stop looking for exceptions and ways around the rules, and put others before themselves. Ex coppers included - we are not in 1980 anymore.