Whilst it is accepted that the global pandemic is an unprecedented crisis requiring cautious behaviour from all to stop the infection spreading, it is our contention that the UK regional police forces have not credited the UK population with any common sense or allowed us any independent thinking to best judge our own circumstances and to take whatever action we consider sensible and necessary to protect ourselves and our families in line with our geographical location, health, finances and other relevant circumstances. This has been removed from us all without debate, warning or consent.

It is obvious UK police forces have exploited the crisis to exceed their honourable founding mandate and have relished in enforcing the removal of our most accepted human rights, liberties and freedoms (including freedom of speech and the right to protest) and the enforced closure of most businesses and income streams from the entire population of the UK.

It is an astonishing fact that even populations occupied by Islamic State extremists had more freedoms than the UK population had during the most strict lockdown 'guidelines'. Measures that were, and many still are, being enforced by over zealous UK police forces.

It is also noted that police officers incomes have not been under threat or reduced. Quite the opposite. Their salaries have been boosted by overtime paid for by the poor, oppressed UK public. 

This situation is a direct contradiction and an insult to previous generations of the current UK public who fought and won two world wars to protect such hard won rights for their descendants - us.

We, the undersigned, consider that regional police forces have betrayed the trust placed in them by us, the public who pay their wages, and have now lost our confidence and respect to such an extent that the UK police forces are no longer 'fit for purpose' and cannot be permitted to  continue in the role that the police were previously entrusted by us to perform.

The bond of trust between the UK public and the UK regional police forces is well and truly broken. We, the public, will not allow or tolerate them to promote themselves from public servants to public tyrants.

There have been countless well publicised examples of the police exceeding and abusing their powers against the public by fining and arresting those who have even been observing the lockdown restrictions and who risked no other person's health (as they were in cars or family household groups) but these citizens still had their integrity and own health and quarantine put in jeopardy by being approached by police who blatantly breached lockdown 'guidelines' themselves and wilfully and callously endangered the health of those they approached by violating the 6 foot safety rule.

The following 5 examples of the many reported, shockingly illustrate the public's justifiable mistrust:                 

1. The toddler and parents who were reprimanded by police for feeding ducks during the lockdown even though the family were on their hour's daily exercise. This was reported in the Bournemouth Daily Echo and not disputed by Dorset Police.

It is unbelievable that feeding ducks by an infant learning to walk is deemed worthy of police intervention. 

2. Derbyshire Police polluting the turquoise blue lake in a Peak District beauty spot near Buxton, by pouring in jet black dye to make it look "less appealing" and to deter walkers from visiting. This was reported in most national media.

This act of ecological vandalism by police who will fine someone for dropping litter on a pavement is hypocritical and fundamentally flawed thinking as if a blue lagoon is suddenly turned black, then it is more likely to attract concerned locals who might wish to see this deliberate act of ecological pollution and vandalism by their police force rather than dissuade walkers from visiting it.

Derbyshire police also used public funds to deploy drones to track walkers in remote areas, clearly forgetting the rather obvious fact that, if drones were necessary, those walkers the drones tracked were extremely isolated.

3. The arrest for murder of Dorset PC2133 Timothy Brehmer. According to media reports, during the complete lockdown, a serving police officer cycled 18 miles to a liaison with a fellow Dorset police officer's wife in a carpark of a pub which was closed. PC2133 Brehmer therefore deliberately defied the lockdown 'guidelines' he was paid to enforce by exceeding the one hour permitted exercise. He then also broke the guideline by getting into his victim's car as she was not a resident at his family home. After, he allegedly strangled her, he then tried to slash his wrist with a knife. Again, why was he carrying a knife on a cycle ride? Although charged with murder, PC Brehmer has not been fined for clear lockdown violation or charged for being in possession of a knife - as any other member of the public would most likely have been.

Worst still, PC2133 Brehmer's alleged victim was employed as an NHS nurse with whom it is reported he had been having a relationship with for 10 years. But whilst the nation was using their hands to clap such nurses for their bravery, PC Brehmer was allegedly using his hands and long arms of the law to throttle the life out of the unfortunate woman and wife of a fellow Dorset police officer. The point being, if PC Brehmer treated his lover in such a violent way, just imagine how he must have treated members of the public he encountered?

If you have no imagination, send a request to the Dorset Police Complaints and Misconduct Unit as to what complaints had been made in regard to their officer now facing a murder charge and what that Unit's conclusion was.

4. It's not just police constables that are a law unto themselves, the very top ranks also consider themselves above the law. The head of British Transport Police in Scotland, Chief Supt Edward Wylie, was reported as travelling twice from his flat in Glasgow to his home in Yorkshire - 236 miles away - between March 21st and May 13th during the time of the strictest lockdown. Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the officer has "serious questions to answer" and that the journeys suggest Chief Supt Wylie "believes there is one rule for him and one rule for the rest of us".

5. Whilst the rest of the population was under house arrest to stop the spread of the virus, the UK Border Force was allowing up to 10,000 travellers a day into the country via airports - many flying in from infected hotspots - without them being subjected to any testing or quarantine. Police officers armed with machine-guns stood aside and let these travellers enter yet, by the law of averages, many must have been infected with the 'invisible enemy' that was killing more of our population every day than all the terrorist organisations have managed to do in our nation's history. Just one death of a UK citizen infected by such a traveller is one too many and the UK Border Force was clearly not acting in the best interest and safety of the public that they are meant to protect.

These are just 5 examples which clearly show UK Police forces no longer represent the public's best interest. Indeed, the Home Secretary, Priti Patel is currently facing allegations of bullying and intimidating her own staff and so is setting a poor example of leadership that the UK police forces are seemingly imitating and inflicting on the public.

Public consent to policing now needs to be withdrawn, reconsidered and then reset along strict guidelines which protect the rights the UK population have lived by and fought to protect, for centuries.

If you feel that the UK police have over-goose-stepped their original mandate and instead of serving and safeguarding the public, are now a direct threat to our accepted way of life and basic human right to freedom, then please sign the petition.

To paraphrase and update to reflect modern times, one of the most inspirational appeals ever made to our citizens in a moment of crisis:

This great nation expects that every citizen will do their duty and sign this petition to give the UK police forces a warning shot across the bow to protect every man, woman and child's liberty and freedoms.

Thank you for your support.