Policing The Pandemic: The Role Of Enforcement In Securing Compliance With The Coronavirus Regulations

遵守冠状病毒法规一直是大流行最激烈的辩论话题之一。英国警察部队被赋予了前所未有的新权力，以强制执行不遵守规定的行为，但关于这些权力是如何使用的，以及谁受到这些权力的约束，缺乏强有力的证据。对于那些不遵守规定的人的特征和情况，我们知之甚少。我们对他们不合规的行为的原因、他们对公众构成的风险程度(就疾病的传播而言)或警察执法对他们生活的影响知之甚少。该项目将深入检查人们无法或不愿遵守规定的因素和漏洞，以及他们的新冠肺炎测试和死亡率结果。它还将探讨警方使用执法来确保遵守以及这对个人的影响。它将采用混合方法，提供来自苏格兰发布的独特定额罚款通知数据库的见解，这些数据库将在个人层面与苏格兰新冠肺炎研究数据中的一系列丰富的健康、经济和社会数据相链接。它还将提供对个别违法者和参与使用执法的警察的访谈的见解。这些发现将对英国各地的警察、政策制定者和政治家具有重要的兴趣和价值，在考虑如何最好地鼓励、允许、支持或迫使人们在遇到当前大流行的未来浪潮时，以及在未来任何需要某种形式的大规模公共遵守的公共卫生(或其他)紧急情况下，如何最好地鼓励、支持或迫使人们遵守这些规定。

Compliance with the Coronavirus Regulations has been one of the most hotly debated topics of the pandemic. UK Police Forces were given unprecedented new powers to enforce non-compliance with the Regulations, and yet there is a striking lack of robust evidence about how the powers were used and who was subject to them. There is very little known about the characteristics and circumstances of those failing to comply with the Regulations. We know little about the reasons for their non-compliant behaviour, the level of risk they posed to the public (in terms of the spread of the disease) or the impact of police enforcement on their lives. This project will conduct an in-depth examination of the factors and vulnerabilities underlying people's inability or unwillingness to comply and their Covid-19 testing and mortality outcomes. It will also explore police use of enforcement to secure compliance and the impact of this on individuals. Using a mixed method approach, it will provide insights from a unique database of Fixed Penalty Notices that were issued in Scotland, which will be linked at an individual level to a rich array of health, economic and social data within Scotland's Covid-19 Data for Research. It will also offer insights from interviews with individual offenders and police officers involved in the use of enforcement. The findings will be of significant interest and value to police officers, policy makers, and politicians across the UK in considering how best to encourage, enable, support or compel people to adhere to the Regulations as we encounter future waves of the current pandemic, and in any future public health (or other) emergency requiring some form of mass public compliance.