{"id":13817,"date":"2020-03-31T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T19:50:37","slug":"n-s-rcmp-warn-those-who-threaten-to-contaminate-officers-with-covid19-could-face-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13817","title":{"rendered":"N.S RCMP warn those who threaten to contaminate officers with COVID19 could face charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DARTMOUTH:<\/strong> Members of the Nova Scotia RCMP have reported being threatened in the  context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past several days, RCMP  officers have reported being threatened to be coughed on by members of  the public who claim to be COVID-19 positive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While  charges have not been laid to date, the RCMP will be addressing these  incidents with the appropriate criminal charges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> [adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> [adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A threat to transmit  the COVID-19 virus is a threat to the wellbeing and health of our  members which is a criminal offence. To actually carry out these threats  would be an Assault on a Peace Officer,\u201d says Cpl. Jennifer Clarke of  Nova Scotia RCMP.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nova  Scotia RCMP remains committed to providing policing services to Nova  Scotians, and wants to remind everyone that we all have a role to play  in contributing to public safety during the current state of emergency.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the public are reminded to adhere to current public health  guidelines with respect to slowing the spread of COVID-19. For more information, please visit: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NovaScotia.ca\/Coronavirus <\/li><li>Canada.ca\/Coronavirus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARTMOUTH: Members of the Nova Scotia RCMP have reported being threatened in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. In the past several days, RCMP officers have reported being threatened to be coughed on by members of the public who claim to be COVID-19 positive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While charges have not been laid to date, the RCMP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[975,2,50,121,14],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-covid19","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}