A force moves to contradict its own chief constable after he said it was 'days away' from rifling through supermarket purchases.
"The point I was making was around the necessity of the journey" and he said on social media he may have been"clumsy" in his language.
"If things don't improve, and we don't get the compliance we would expect, then the next stage will be road blocks and it will be stopping people to ask why they are going, where they're going. Home Secretary Priti Patel also appeared to knock down Mr Adderley's comments, saying measures such as roadblocks and searching trolleys were"not appropriate".
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