rules are getting more complicated and incomprehensible by the day,
the above photograph is of the officer
leading the national police response to the pandemic, who admitted he did not
know the lockdown rules, Owen Weatherill,(above), told MPs the new three-tier
system was too confusing and the public needed simpler messages, the assistant
chief constable proved his point by failing to clarify that households must not
mix indoors in Tier Two areas, questioned on the issue, he could only reply: 'I
have not got the regulations in front of me so I cannot give you a definitive
answer on that, there are so many different variations – I am not conversant with
every set of regulations.' In Great Britain ignorantia juris non excusat or
ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses
not" and "ignorance of law excuses no one"
respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of
a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely
because one was unaware of it’s content, I wonder if he knows that? And if that
was not bad enough, another police chief also slipped up during the farcical
session of the Commons home affairs committee, Lancashire Chief Constable Andy
Rhodes said: 'The big one for me moving from Tier Two to Three is your
household not mixing with others inside your household – not mixing or going
out for a meal with people from another household.' Yvette Cooper, the Labour
chairman of the committee, pointed out this was wrong because household
mixing indoors is banned in both tiers, what brought this on was a post I made yesterday regarding a gyms interpretation
of the law, on a serous note, going back to the article, if police chiefs are not sure of the law what chance has a beat officer got following his chiefs example, and what chance have we poor saps got of interpreting what senior police officers say, if they are incorrect themselves?
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