Barbadians who are essential workers and make their way home during late-night hours will have to put up with plain-clothes police officers doing patrols.
This is due partly to numbers and shifts, according to police public relations officer, Acting Inspector Rodney Inniss.
His comments come in the wake of an outcry on social media following a story printed recently in the Midweek Nation.
Some essential workers said they were fearful of being stopped by police officers in plainclothes at night during the 24-hour national shutdown and would not be stopping in the event such happened.
“We want the public to know police officers are out there to enforce the law, whether in uniform or not. If you’re out there [on the roads], you can expect at some point in time you may be stopped by police officers,” Inniss said. (RA)
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