Quote Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish View Post
Lord Sumption, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, told Radio 4's World At One the actions of Derbyshire Police - which also included uploading drone footage of walkers to social media - had "shamed our policing traditions".

"The tradition of policing in this country is that policemen are citizens in uniform, they are not members of a disciplined hierarchy operating just at the government's command," he said.

"The police have no power to enforce ministers' preferences but only legal regulations which don't go anything like as far as the government's guidance."
There's no doubt some police are dick heads who go to far, we've always known that.

But anyone driving to go for a walk in the current situation is either clueless or an arse hole.