Greater Manchester Police broke up a child’s birthday party

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They’ve been busy recently...

#UPDATE | Officers attended a property in #Swinton where 3 families were celebrating a child's birthday in a private garden. The homeowner has been issued with a fixed penalty notice.

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The rest of their Twitter exploits:

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Draconian or justified?

"Visiting someone who is terminally ill is a valid exemption. So they'd have looked particularly silly then."

Even then there are restrictions, e.g someone who doesn't know the child would not be permitted if there were family member's there etc. Advice was offered by the police so I imagine there were some breaches taking place.

We seem to have different expectations of our police force walksen.

I expect them to tackle the biggest threats. That's the whole point isn't it? We all know large gatherings pose a risk especially indoors.

I expect them to use discretion, build bridges within communities to support the principle of policing by consent.

Selecting 'easy' targets is ineffective at achieving the aims of the guidance. It reinforces that larger gatherings are ok for the future.

Some posters seem to think we should be grateful for their discretion in not fining the family of a child with terminal cancer.

What low standards you have for our police force. Of course they should use their discretion, not least because the family was likely exempt. Not to mention it would never have stood up in court. Entirely disproportionate.

It's the bare minimum of standards they should be ashamed to brag about it on social media.

I expect that they execute their duties in all areas making most cost effective use of their limited resources and recognise that they have to do so based on government priorities and targets, like all public target.

I don't expect them to tackle ridiculous large assemblies without sufficient manpower. For example when Russian agents killed people with a nerve agent in Salisbury we did nothing but I don't think this was cowardice, which is an easy accusation to throw from the sidelines

For all we know large gatherings in domestic properties weddings etc are the priority because infection data shows it is the main threat rather than large raves. BLM protests or people on beaches.

Putting it on twitter was showing that enforcement was being taken, not a brag. I also question the point of building bridges with selfish cunts who are by definition selfish. Police tried in the early stages to advise people of the guidelines. It didn't make any difference and the authorities had to promise stricter enforcement to avoid a total lockdown.

Police have continued to put their health and well being on the line while being pilloried for it.

Extremely unreasonable to have a gathering during a lockdown, and I think they should be fined extremely heavily for doing so.

I know someone who had a 'gathering' the other weekend despite being in the GM lockdown area. The police showed up and basically said 'Shut this down, and if we come back in half an hour and you haven't, we're fining you all'.

So I guess they are doing a lot of warnings before they go in and break things up.