between government guidance and the criminal law. he says that really left police on the front line facing a hard time having to enforce something that they did not actually have the powers to enforce. i suppose early on in the pandemic there were different interpretations of the rules and restrictions by different police forces and some, derbyshire came under criticism for being slightly overzealous potentially. suddenly they found himself at the centre of the police investigation almost. you had 25 pages of regulations that became about a hundred pages of regulations by the end of it. he had 90,000 fixed penalty notice is issued by police voices in some places issuing hardly any and some voices issuing quite a few. a big difference in the way that was done. given that we are
about it it does mean we development and sensitive development but the building coming forward should be respectful and sympathetic to the history of the place. respectful and sympathetic to the history of the place. the police watchdog has criticised regulations as confusing for police officers and the public, often leaving both unable to tell what was guidance and what was law. sir thomas winsor s annual report on the state of policing said the response of the police was exemplary apart from a few isolated incidents. but he said ministers stood at their podiums and gave instructions to the british people which weren t backed by laws. he s been speaking to our home affairs correspondent tom symonds, whojoins me now. this is the police report card for the year and it s a year that s been dominated by the pandemic and he said he was positive about the
unlikely to be free of this kind of policing in future, the pandemic may continue in some form. we may need to see some regulations in the winter. i think he felt it was important to try and get across the differences the police forces had felt and the need for the government to be clear about this. we ve even seen this week and that is to say that it seen this week and that is to say thatitis seen this week and that is to say that it is not actually a law that if you are paying the you have to go away and the government saying it s something you should be doing. so this is pretty much a live issue. i will be back with a reminder of the latest headlines. you are watching bbc means.
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