POLICE in the Fermanagh and Omagh District have taken Covid-19 enforcement action a total of 523 times from March, 2020 to midnight on Sunday, February  21, 2021.

 

The stats are issued periodically by the PSNI, and are broken down into the following types of enforcement.

 

COV1 Penalty Notices; COV2 Commercial or Private Prohibition Notices issued to licensed premises or for restriction of gatherings in a private dwelling; COV3 Failure to Isolate; COV4 Penalty Notices (COV4 now replaces COV1, with fines starting at £200); COV5 Penalty Notice issued to a business and/or premises for breach of the regulations (starting at £1,000, to a max of £10,000); and Community Resolution Notices (CRNs).

 

In the Fermanagh and Omagh District from that 2020-2021 period inclusive, there were a total of 95 COV1 penalty notices issued.

 

In total, there were 22 COV2 Commercial Prohibition Notices issued to licensed premises in the period.

 

A total of 52 COV2 Private Prohibition Notices were issued for restriction of gatherings in a private dwelling.

 

Three people were issued £1,000 COV3 Failure to Isolate fines from March, 2020 in this district.

 

A total of 178  COV4 Penalty Notices, with fines starting at £200, were issued from March, 2020 – this was 27 more than recorded in the previous reporting week, which had a total figure of 73.

 

Two COV5 Penalty Notices in total have been issued to businesses and/or premises for breach of the regulations (starting at £1,000 to a max of £10,000) in the Fermanagh and Omagh District since March, 2020, while a total of 97  CRNs have been issued.