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Wednesday, 28th April 2021, 11:52 am
Chief Inspector Charlotte Bloxham said that 34 fixed penalty notices were issued in the last seven days, more than four times the week previous.
Of these 27 were issued in the Scarborough borough.
Chief Inspector Bloxham told a meeting of the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum today that people must stick to the rules after the increase in rule breaking.
A total of 34 fixed penalty notices were issued in the last seven days across the borough.
She said: “This is disappointing considering last week we had cause to issue just seven notices.
“The majority of these latest fines were issued for indoor gatherings in the Scarborough area with three issued in York and four issued in Harrogate.
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POLICE have now issued over 1,000 Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) to people in North Yorkshire for breaching Covid regulations during the third national lockdown. A further 191 FPNs have been issued over the last week, making it the busiest week so far for North Yorkshire Police in terms of handing out the penalties. These further FPNs take the total during the third lockdown to 1,017. A total of 240 FPNs have been issued in York, 34 of which were in the last week. The penalties are split into four categories, indoor gatherings, outdoor gatherings, being outside the place of living and obstruct/contravene/fail to close business.