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This kind of thing is the best argument against giving the police any extra powers in this crisis:

A day after a police force threatened to snoop through people’s
shopping baskets, officers elsewhere have taken it upon themselves to
decide what count as ‘non-essential aisles’ in supermarkets. Police in
Cambridge tweeted a picture outside Tesco Barhill during their patrols
of supermarkets and green spaces. They said: ‘Good to see everyone was
abiding by social distancing measures and the non essential aisles
were empty’.

And:

Yesterday Nottinghamshire Police Chief Constable, Nick Adderley, came
in for criticism after threatening that his force was ‘a few days
away’ from looking in shopping trolleys to see what people had bought.

I know those are individual people going a bit too far, but still, you give them one reason to be slightly stricter and next thing you hear talk about them checking your shopping trolley? Yikes.