👮🏼‍♂️New police powers to enforce social distancing:

💰 £60 fine, or £30 if you pay within 14 days
💰💰 £120 fine for second time offenders, doubling on each further offence
🤚Instructing people to go home or disperse
👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Tellling parents to stop their children breaking the rules
ITV News has also seen check points now being used by police to stop motorists and ask them where they’re going and why.

These are unprecedented restrictions on our freedom of movement in peacetime (but almost everyone would argue for good reason). #COVID19
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