Three Salisbury men fined for non-essential travel
Wiltshire Police have released their latest Covid-19 figures
Last updated 12th Jan 2021
Two men from Salisbury and one from Laverstock were fined by police between the 6th and 9th of January for non-essential travel.
They were stopped outside of their "local area" and were given the penalty under the force's Covid-19 powers.
In total, the latest figures from between 4th and 10th January show Wiltshire Police:
- Issued nine fixed penalty notices. There is also the retrospective addition of 26 FPNs for offences in recent weeks. This brings the overall total to 294.
- Issued 96 formal warnings to people for failing to adhere to the Government rules. Six of these were issued to businesses not complying.
- Recorded 286 reports from members of the public, either via the phone or using our online reporting tool.
- Recorded five Covid-related crimes and 33 Covid-related incidents.
STAY AT HOME
Wiltshire Police are urging people to make sure they're sticking with the current Covid guidelines and to only leave their house for essential reasons.
Deputy Chief Constable Paul Mills said:
"The national lockdown restrictions have now been in place for a week, and, as this is the third national lockdown which we have all experienced, we would expect the public to have a good understanding about what they can and can’t do.
The message from the Government, the NHS and Public Health England is clear - we all need to stay at home and only leave to go out in line with the limited exceptions permitted by the law.
Never has this message been more important, as we see the highest levels of the virus in our communities to date. Our health system is under significant strain and it only through following the rules that each of us will play our part in keeping ourselves and our community safe.
I know that the vast majority of people understand this and are doing their bit to take personal responsibility for their actions, I would like to thank them for the sacrifices they are making.
Our community teams are actively patrolling across the communities of Swindon and Wiltshire and where we find members of the public that are blatantly breaking and flouting the law we will take action and issue fines where it is appropriate to do so."
If you believe someone may be breaching government restrictions, you are being urged to report the matter online via the Wiltshire Police website.