FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps is seen in front of men in protective suits pretending to clean the cabinet as part of a stunt for social media, as the number of coronavirus cases (COVID-19) grows around the world, in London, Britain, March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
LONDON (Reuters) – The British police have done a good job in the coronavirus crisis though there may be some individual instances of some officers going a little too far in enforcing a lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Tuesday.
“The police are doing a difficult job and they are doing it well,” Shapps told Sky.
“I am sure there are individual examples where perhaps you look at it and think that is perhaps a bit further than they should have gone but in general terms I think the case is that if people help everybody out, including the police, by staying home and the rest of it, then there will be no problems.”
Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Kylie MacLellan; editing by Michael Holden