Holiday Police

Cops make home visits to enforce quarantine

- Dave Burke

BRITS returning from holidays abroad can expect a “knock on the door” from police checking they are obeying the quarantine rules.

Officers are expected to carry out 10,000 spot-checks a day to make sure people are sticking to the 10-day rule when they get home.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorised a huge increase in enforcement after international travel was permitted again on Monday.

She warned: “People will not go unchecked. Significant resources have been put in place – millions of pounds – in terms of the follow-up checking of people around their testing and making sure they stay at home. It has been stepped up.”