After a massive increase in COVID fines issued last weekend, Yorkshire Coast police officers say people haven't understood that the lockdown is still in force.
The easing of the lockdown restrictions is being put at risk, that's the warning from leaders in North Yorkshire after an increasing number of cases of people flouting the lockdown rules.
The government announced the roadmap for easing restrictions last week but the stay at home order is still in force until the end of March, and after that there will still be some restrictions around the numbers of people we can meet up with.
Last weekend saw police in Scarborough fine 21 people who went to a 40th Birthday Party and there were also an increasing number of fines given to people visiting the coast.
Dan Thompson is a North Yorkshire police safer neighbourhood sergeant based in Eastfield, he says there was a change in peoples behaviour last weekend,
255 fixed penalty notices were issued in the county last week to people breaching the lockdown rules. It's the highest weekly number in the latest lockdown. 127 of those fines were issued in the Scarborough borough.
Sergeant Dan Thompson says it appears people have lost sight of the fact that the lockdown and the stay at home order is still in force.
Here is Sergeant Thompson talking about what he experienced while on patrol on the Yorkshire Coast last weekend.


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