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Bailiwick Law Enforcement Officers will wear masks and will be socially distancing from each other with immediate effect.
Law Enforcement has decided to implement a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for all of its staff members at Police Headquarters, the White Rock, the New Jetty and other locations.
When in "shared spaces", staff will be wearing face coverings, socially distancing and ensuring they are taking hygiene precautions such as regularly hand sanitising.
The Head of Law Enforcement said this decision has been made as a preventative measure should cases begin to rise. He stressed that the organisation is not aware of any information that is not publicly known.
There won’t be any changes to the services Law Enforcement deliver, although the public may notice officers wearing masks again, for example, when more than one officer is in a police vehicle and responding to an incident.
“We want to step up early to make sure we do everything we can to protect the public and our organisation while learning to live with Covid-19," said Chief Officer Ruari Hardy.
"I have a responsibility to ensure we can continue to deliver our crucial services across the Bailiwick. NPIs will help make sure we can do this, whether there is a cluster that affects Law Enforcement or not.
"We have already witnessed events in Alderney, and our colleagues on the northern isle embraced these changes immediately, and we are now doing so across the entire organisation.
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"Our principal responsibility is to keep the public safe and these basic steps are designed to support this objective given we have a limited number of staff.
"This action is similar to what has taken place within our health services and we will keep these measures under constant review.”
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