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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA police force in the UK threatened to start searching people\u2019s shopping baskets in order to catch coronavirus lockdown violators, but later had to backtrack following a public backlash.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Northamptonshire Police chief constable Nick Adderley prompted outrage after he appeared in a video to warn people who were buying unessential items at grocery stores that their purchases may be scrutinized by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe will not at this stage be starting to marshal supermarkets and checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it\u2019s a legitimate, necessary item but again be under no illusion, if people do not heed the warnings and the pleas that I\u2019m making today, we will start to do that,\u201d said Adderley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Northamptonshire Police is among the worst performers in the country for bringing charges after cases of burglary. But its chief constable will damn well rummage through your shopping basket and find that incriminating can of air freshener if he wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adderley also said police checkpoints would be set up if people didn\u2019t properly adhere to quarantine rules, warning that a \u201cthree-week grace period\u201d in his county was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf things don\u2019t improve, and we don\u2019t get the compliance we would expect, then the next stage will be road blocks and it will be stopping people to ask why they are going, where they\u2019re going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The police force later had to backtrack from Adderley\u2019s comments, tweeting, \u201cTo clarify some suggestions made in the media, we absolutely will NOT be searching people\u2019s shopping trolleys in Northamptonshire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UK Police Force Threatens to Search Shopping Baskets to Catch \u2018Lockdown\u2019 Violators Forced to backtrack after public backlash. A police force in the UK threatened to start searching people\u2019s shopping baskets in order to catch coronavirus lockdown violators, but later had to backtrack following a public backlash. Northamptonshire Police chief constable Nick Adderley prompted outrage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29361,29362,14572,632,29360,26537,2080],"class_list":["post-52356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-essential-vs-non-essential","tag-northamptonshire","tag-paul-joseph-watson","tag-police","tag-police-search","tag-summit-news","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52357,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52356\/revisions\/52357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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