Is anyone reporting breaches?

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I've read threads saying there are police forces who have online reporting for breaches but are these anonymous? I can imagine neighbourly relations being very strained if anyone reports them especially if the reports aren't anonymous. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is of the foremost concern but would people want to report neighbours even for the greater good and even if they were putting them at risk? My own neighbours are flouting the guidelines, mixing households and socialising in the garden, along with being out and about every day. I'm shielded and our gardens are very small and not particularly separate so we can't keep 2 metres apart easily. It's even worse if they have guests. Going out in the garden is the only way I can get out of the house for the next 10/11 weeks and I resent not being able to enjoy our outdoor space because the neighbours can't stick to the guidelines. And don't get me started on the amount of door banging they do all day. Grrr I don't like people!

I reported a nightclub doing lock ins. Wouldn’t report neighbours for minor things.

I'm working in a Police control room at the moment - I'm on my break before anyone jumps on me - we have literally had nothing but calls about breach of guidelines since I came on duty.

Complainers details arent even being passed out to the cops attending. Even if they were given to them theres no way theyd go to a call & say who reported it.

Every single report is being followed up and dealt with. A lot are coming in anonymously too

People make rash judgements and that can be the route of the problem.

I agree that families mixing in gardens isn't right. They are potentially spreading the virus between themselves.

However. If families are literally not sending their children anywhere other than seeing this same small group realistically it's no different from those attending school - who incidentally are mixing with children from other households who parents are working and mixing with people from other households and as is the case in my school different staff groups on a daily basis as it's rostered.

That's why I don't jump to report. A garden is confined. It's the same group. It's those people who are out and about in a supermarket and then going to different shops and then for a walk and then sitting in a public space whilst loads of other people that pass who are risking more lives.

I'm not saying it's right to flout the guidelines or rules just that not everyone doing it is causing the massive outcry of risk that people scream about.

I choose not to mix with neighbours because of contact I have with school children and believe I'm a higher risk because of this. I also choose not to take ds to supermarket or into any local shops if walk down for necessities because I don't want to expose him unnecessarily.

What about the twat who exercises outside our house by the front garden instead of in his own garden? I'd love to smack him one the entitled little prick. We have trouble with him normally but right now my patience is very thin.

I think its difficult to report them for regularly going out, but if they have multiple households in a garden which is too small for the OP who is in the shielding group to then safely use her own, Then i think thats a perfectly valid reason to report them.

If they have multiple people from outside the household in the garden and potentially asymptomatic and shedding, and its in close proximity to the OP and her garden then it begs the question whether it makes her garden just as dangerous for her as sitting on a park bench (Which FYI people are not allowed to do atm, its considered that serious)

My friend got the police phoned on them for being in their own garden.

Their neighbours just hate them and have since they moved there.

I think over zealous self righteous people are doing this. I also think the police only set this reporting system up to stop people calling them to report their neighbours and blocking the phone lines. They did ask people to stop calling them about their neighbours but they didn't and then they set up this reporting system. I think it is just to stop people wasting police time.