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Police criticised for patrolling Tesco 'to make sure non-essential aisles empty'

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A police force is facing criticism after its officers patrolled a Tesco and found that "the non essential aisles were empty".

Cambridgeshire Police officers visited the supermarket just a day after Northamptonshire's chief constable faced a backlash for suggesting officers could search shopping trolleys if people kept flouting social distancing rules.

Home Secretary Priti Patel hit back and said checking supermarket trolleys is "not appropriate". On Friday morning, officers attended a Tesco in Bar Hill, Cambridgeshire, and checked "non-essential" aisles, according to a post on Twitter, where one user wrote back: "Sounds like non essential policing." Cambridgeshire Police blamed an "overexuberant officer" who "has been spoken to" after

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