Leeds-Wide Dispersal Orders To Target Illegal Gatherings This Bank Holiday Weekend.

Leeds-Wide Dispersal Orders To Target Illegal Gatherings This Bank Holiday Weekend.

West Yorkshire Police

Published

*Wednesday, August 26, 2020*

Dispersal orders are being put in place in Leeds this Bank Holiday Weekend to give additional support to officers to stop unlicensed music events or large gatherings that breach Coronavirus restrictions and risk increasing the spread.

Alongside existing powers under the current Covid-19 legislation, the orders will give officers the ability to ask people to leave a specified area and not to return for 48 hours or face arrest.

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