Some police officers in the UK have come under the scanner for heavy-handedness while enforcing social distancing guidelines in the fight against COVID-19.
Reports have emerged of officers using drones to spy on the public when they are outdoors, and some were even found ordering shops not to sell Easter eggs as they aren't "essential items".
A minister on Tuesday accused the officers of "going too far" and warned them against turning the country into a police state.
"The tradition of policing in this country is that policemen are citizens in uniform, they are not members of a disciplined hierarchy operating just at the government's command," Jonathan Sumption, a former UK Supreme Court judge, told the BBC.
"This is what a police state is like. It's a state in which the government can issue orders or express preferences with no legal authority and the police will enforce ministers' wishes."
According to the new rules, police can issue an on-the-spot fine of £30 (around AED 135) for people gathering in groups of more than two or leave their homes for non-essential reasons.
Meanwhile, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), said they were looking to adopt a "consistent" level of service.
Israeli occupation forces committed multiple massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 60 Palestinians and the injury of 162 others, according to medical reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, according to two officials familiar with the decision, and congressional Democrats denounced the removal of the nonpartisan official from a top security post.
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey of trying to turn the country into a Turkish protectorate.
The Trump administration moved forward with the sale of more than 20,000 US-made assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document seen by Reuters, pushing ahead with a sale that the administration of former president Joe Biden had delayed.
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