The chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation said: 'Shopkeepers need to step up to the plate and take some responsibility.'
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‘That’s the first point we need to get across because this cannot all be laid on the shoulders of the police yet again. ‘If a shopkeeper calls the police because someone hasn’t got a mask on, they haven’t got the power to detain them so that person can just walk away. He said: ‘It becomes a position where it’s them and us yet again and we’ve seen this throughout this Covid pandemic. It has always become the police’s problem to deal with this.’
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