Grenada charges 27 for violating virus rules

Acting Commissioner of Police describes the charges as a lack of cooperation from persons

ARRESTS: Grenada's Acting Commissioner of Police

ONE OF Grenada’s top police officers has said that some of the population are making things difficult in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.

Edvin Martin, Acting Commissioner of Police, has confirmed that since Grenada began the limited State of Emergency last as part of mandatory measures aimed at reducing the spread of Covid-19, police have charged 27 persons for violating the curfew and other section of the regulations, reports nowgrenada.com.

The website adds that Martin describes the charges as a lack of cooperation from persons, Martin said that 7 were arrested for the consumption of alcohol at shops, while 3 are bus drivers charged for overloading buses in violation of the one-to-a-seat rule.

“The RGPF arrested 27 persons specific to the limited state of emergency for lack of cooperation; breaking curfew, leaving their place of residence without due cause and a number of matters that have put us in an environment that makes it difficult to enforce the social distancing.”

Measures

He pointed out that the police have adopted 2 measures to handle the law violators. “All of the 27, so far they have been processed by the police in one of two ways.

“We granted bail to some of those and others we have decided based on the minor nature of the offence to take them by summons and we have made that conscious decision for 2 things: given the small size of our cells, not wanting to keep a large number of persons and not being able to have to social distance in the cells,” Martin said in a news conference.

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