Just a lovely example of sensible social distance policing at work

John Plunkett. Updated May 5th, 2020

A fine example, now, of the police using their powers sensibly – and sensitively – to ensure everyone observes social distancing, as shared by this local policing team in Tooting, south London.

Luckily PC Knellar was on hand to break up this fight in #tooting this week! Luckily they listened to his advice and went their separate ways! This was not an essential journey so they were also ignoring #SocialDistancing and #lockdown! 🙄 Have a good weekend everyone #StayAtHome pic.twitter.com/bIQJhbIvXr

— Tooting Town Police (@MPSTootingTnC) May 2, 2020

And just a few of the things people were saying about it.

Beautifully tackled! Years of experience and training in order to achieve the best results there, those officers should be congratulated 😁👍 🐱

— Harry Tangye (@DC_ARVSgt) May 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/nickheathsport/status/1256910189858562048?s=20

Verbal communication followed up by physical presence!!!! That's brilliant!!! They were probably high on catnip!!! Haha xx

— Kim Woodgate (@CBFA2020) May 2, 2020

Sports commentator Andrew Cotter’s take on his two dogs dicking around on a walk is the content we needed today
Source @MPSTootingTnC H/T @nickheathsport