UK police not monitoring supermarket purchases, force insists

A Twitter post by the force’s Cambridge team said they were pleased to see that the ‘non-essential aisles’ were empty.

A British police force has insisted it is not monitoring what people are buying from supermarkets following comments by an “over exuberant officer” on non-essential shopping aisles.

It comes just a day after a chief constable of another force was criticised for suggesting officers could search shopping trolleys if people continued to flout lockdown rules.