Despite dishing out fines for the likes of eating a kebab on a park bench, some cops aren’t practicing what they preach.
Case in point – two police officers in NSW, who were each fined $1,000 for getting on the booze at a party over the weekend.
The pair, both in their mid-20’s, were given away when one of them was spotted drunk and had to be admitted to hospital.
The incident came with an extra slice of irony, with their boss, NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, urging residents to dob in backpackers that they see not adhering to social distancing laws.
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The same goes for the boys and girls in blue it would seem.
The incident comes the federal government reveals Australia’s coronavirus modeling, which indicates that Australians are, indeed, flattening the curve early on.
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The past 24-hours have seen fines handed out around the country for all kinds of reasons, including one to a learner driver who was getting their hours up with their mother.
Thankfully, that fine has since been withdrawn.
“It only takes a handful of people to do the wrong thing and it can spread the virus through the community,” said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian of the new social distancing rules this morning.
“We cannot have communities who currently don’t have the virus get contaminated unintentionally because people are moving around when they shouldn’t.”
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