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Police tell family they’re not allowed in front garden

369 replies

LilacTree1 · 09/04/2020 22:15

Bloody ridiculous

Video and story here

twitter.com/syptweet/status/1248294700827709440

OP posts:

Melroses · 09/04/2020 23:20

I did a big shop on Monday and got loads of 'non-essentials' - but if no one buys the easter eggs and the fancy coffee then what happens to it

Waitrose were out of Essential Coffee this morning, so fancy coffee is all there is [shrug]

Otterseatpuffinsdontthey · 09/04/2020 23:21

SarahTancredi · 09/04/2020 23:28

There was only 1 person breaching the 2metre rule in that garden....

JudyCoolibar · 09/04/2020 23:33

I couldn't go in my garden without being within 2 metres of anyone passing by so i would expect the police to stop me

That would be very foolish of them as they have no power to stop you from standing on your own property It would also be stupid from an infection control point of view. After all, as soon as you step out of your front gate when you go to the shops or for daily exercise, you would be in exactly the same position. Even if the law did apply to private property, it's up to the person passing by to move away so they aren't within two metres. If they don't, you can move back for the short time involved.

HeresMe · 09/04/2020 23:37

I wish South Yorkshire police operating in this exact same town of Rotherham had been quicker to investigate the paedophillia going on.

It's strange isn't it, it's ok for a police officer whose job it is to not know the rules, yet it's not ok to not know the rules as a member of joe public.

Healthyandhappy · 09/04/2020 23:40

I live in rotherham and they drive round all time up here and we live on a big private estate near Barnsley they need to go to sheffield and leave us alone as we are following rules.

CruCru · 09/04/2020 23:41

People are going to get quite fed up with the police if they carry on like this. It undermines what the police are actually for.

MintyMabel · 09/04/2020 23:46

People are going to get quite fed up with the police if they carry on like this. It undermines what the police are actually for.

They will have to be very careful for this reason. People will not accept this kind of over reaching for too long.

blacksax · 09/04/2020 23:48

As far as I am concerned, I can be in my garden and weed the flowerbed bordering the path, and anyone walking along the path would need to stay 2 metres away from me because I was there first.

Binterested · 09/04/2020 23:49

I think so far the police have not had a good crisis. They need to remember we didn’t become criminals overnight even if some of them are enjoying the freedom to treat us all as if we were criminals all along.

People need to know they can get through this. Chastising people for standing in their own front gardens or buying Easter eggs or cycling through the park as my 13 year old was when she was stopped by police this week is pointless, overreaching and damages people’s willingness to engage with the underlying principles of lockdown.

The police have lost my trust on a number of matters and they are looking foolish here as well.

forkfun · 09/04/2020 23:53

And don't excuse the officer for lack of direction or that it's her boss' fault. If I (as Jane bloggs) can read and understand the government guidelines, so should any police officer. It's abundantly clear that the legislation does not apply to gardens.

MintyMabel · 10/04/2020 00:05

Watching the video, I’m intrigued by the “I saw you coming back from the shop with two cans of pop” comment. Has she been following him? Is he known to her? He’s off out again to Aldi, is he perhaps pushing the guidelines to the limit and she knows it and it is pissing her off? Don’t know, just think there is a wee backstory to it. She is clearly wrong, but somethings weird about it,

Not fake news, ignore the idiots saying that

But the headline (as is also the case here) does only tell half a story.

SYP confirms this officer was in the wrong. Police are not telling people they can’t use their gardens, one officer wrongly told one person they couldn’t be in the garden.

Just like the Police chief said a lot more than “we will be checking trolleys for essentials”

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/04/2020 00:11

I think they guy was acting perfectly within the rules here but the mention that she's already witnessed him out buying "pop" (and he was actually buying his power cards and probably just picked that up when in the shop) and then questioning that he therefore couldn't now go to Aldi as he's been out shopping already, had me wondering if someone has complained or if he has not been sticking to the rules in general (though in this case, he clearly was). It looks like they were watching him?

Not making excuses for anyone, it just seems there is more to it than the police happening to be passing just as they were using their front garden.

AprilFloundering · 10/04/2020 00:12

South Yorkshire Police have publicly admitted the female officer who did this was wrong and confirmed that people can of course be in their gardens, front or back.

Aesopfable · 10/04/2020 00:14

There’s been an apology on twitter

Twitter is cess pit. Why was it considered the appropriate place for an apology?

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/04/2020 00:14

Crossed with Minty there. I was typing too slow!

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 10/04/2020 00:18

I notice that in all the videos or photos I've seen the coppers are standing closer to people than they should be. Have they been taught that a uniform means that you can't catch or transmit coronavirus?

alloutoffucks · 10/04/2020 00:22

Yes I too wonder if there is a back story here and there is more to it than meets the eye.

Turquoiseeyes · 10/04/2020 00:23

South Yorkshire police should have investigated and arrested the gangs of men grooming young girls and passing them around to be raped.
They dismissed those girls as slags, SYP are a disgrace.
The Police woman can definitely be blamed, as a pp said, most of us understand the rules it's not difficult. She completely overstepped the mark and as a pp said there is only one person breaching the 2 metre rule.
I don't believe that there's more to this story, we're not under house arrest yet but overly officious Police officers are taking guidelines to extremes.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 10/04/2020 00:25

I wish South Yorkshire police operating in this exact same town of Rotherham had been quicker to investigate the paedophillia going on.

Wait, that was in Rotherham? You'd think someone would have clued the police there in on the fact that if any force needs to go out of its way to try to win back the goodwill of the public it's them. At this point it seems like the only way to fix the police in Yorkshire would be to sack the whole lot of them and start over again.

nettie434 · 10/04/2020 00:26

Good points from LizzieSiddal & Heresme re police priorities. They seem to get caught up very visible ‘low fruit’ activities but ignore the complex hard to resolve problems. Plus they have got so used to being the good woke guys that they seem to have forgotten completely about policing by consent.

WaxOnFeckOff · 10/04/2020 00:26

Given some of the posts I've seen. it will be some Mnetter thinking "how fucking dare they go to the shop and play out in the front garden! They should be indoors drinking tap water and eating dry pasta". Who has then reported them to local cops. They've seen him come back with cans from the newsagent and then get kids out on the front lawn and decided to have a go.

Or maybe he is generally skating close to the wind/breaking the rules and just happens to be in the right this time.

ErrolTheDragon · 10/04/2020 00:27

As far as I am concerned, I can be in my garden and weed the flowerbed bordering the path, and anyone walking along the path would need to stay 2 metres away from me because I was there first.

It's your home... If I'm having my walk, on the part through the village if someone is in their garden or on their driveway I cross the road if I need to, I wouldn't for a moment expect them to move for me.

HeIenaDove · 10/04/2020 00:42

Even IF hes "got form" she still picked the wrong reason for chastising him.

TheProdigalKittensReturn · 10/04/2020 00:44

If I'm walking past someone's garden and there isn't enough space it's my job to move further away, not their job to run inside so I don't have to.

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