GLASGOW’S top cop has said her officers are talking to the small minority who flout lockdown rules as official figures reveal over a hundred have been slapped with fixed penalty notices in the city.

Chief Superintendent Hazel Hendren, however, said that the majority of people in the city have been doing the ‘right thing’.

Her comments come after Chief Constable Iain Livingston last week announced 500 penalty notices had been issued across Scotland to those who weren’t abiding by lockdown rules. Of this figure, 113 fixed penalties were issued in Greater Glasgow and Clyde police division.

Those figures additionally reveal that 404 people within the Glasgow area were asked to disperse when flouting the rules - while a further 115 were given a warning of the consequences if they refused.

The data also shows that police officers had to use “reasonable force” to return ten people to their homes as they disregarded the new laws.

Emergency coronavirus powers have in addition allowed the Greater Glasgow Police Division to arrest eight people since March 27.

We previously revealed a woman in King’s Park was arrested after allegedly hosting a lockdown party.

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It’s understood two men were also cautioned at property in Montford Avenue last week.

Glaswegians have also been caught flouting lockdown laws elsewhere with seven people fined in Manchester after embarking on a 400-mile roadtrip to visit friends in London.

Last month, the Glasgow Times also told how officers in Cumbria stopped and "dealt with" nine men driving from Glasgow to England to buy cars.

Glasgow Times:

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Chief Superintendent Hazel Hendren, who is the Divisional Commander for the city, said: “The vast majority of people in Glasgow are continuing to do the right thing during this acute health emergency and I thank them for that.

“The social distancing legal requirement to stay at home is the best way to protect the NHS and save lives and that message is going to continue for some time.

“Glasgow is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in Scotland and the figures reflect that.

“What’s more important here is the message that we’ve got over five million people in Scotland and by the end of last week, we had only issued 500 FPNs across the whole of the country so the number of people defying the regulations is extremely small.

“We saw a pretty consistent level of a very small minority of people who were intent on disobeying the regulations and on those cases, we did what we’ve been doing across Scotland, we tried to inform people to make sure they knew what the legal requirements were.

“We engaged with them appropriately and if they refused to either disperse or comply with the regulations, then, in a very small number of cases, people were issued with FPNs, or in an even smaller number, people were arrested.”

Glasgow Times:

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The emergency coronavirus bill was speedily passed through the UK and Scottish parliaments last month in a bid to control the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was granted royal assent in just five days.

For police, it means they will have temporary powers to detain those who defy to the government's health guidance on social distancing in a bid to slow down transmission of the virus.

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