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The Met has now concluded one of its investigations into a amount of probably breaches of the Covid regulations opened in July 2023.
The main became once a re-opening of the investigation concerning an match in Matthew Parker Avenue on 14 December 2020 following new evidence being made obtainable to officers.
Having assessed that new evidence the Met has made 24 referrals for mounted penalty notices (FPNs) to the ACRO Criminal Records Office for breaches of Covid-19 regulations.
The second investigation linked to a gathering in Parliament at an match on 8 December 2020 continues.
Our position has continually been that we might now not routinely investigate breaches of the Covid regulations retrospectively, and only attain so where there might be evidence of a fundamental and flagrant breach and where:
- There became once evidence that these involved knew or must always maintain known that what they were doing became once an offence;
- The place now not investigating would considerably undermine the legitimacy of the law and;
- The place there became once small ambiguity all over the absence of any reasonable defence.
We might maybe now not be releasing or confirming the identification of anyone involved in these investigations or providing additional limited print of our findings, in line with the potential we took during the pandemic.