Mr. Drew Harris:

We were acting in support of the Government's strategy in trying to suppress Covid-19. We were given regulations that varied in terms of people’s ability to move and businesses that could be undertaken. We were given charge of the enforcement of those regulations. One issue was the amount of community concern and fear there was as Covid-19 broke out and as to how we would respond appropriately. The very appropriate response, I felt, was one of community policing. However, in respect of enforcement we also adopted what we call the "four Es", where we would engage with people, educate them in respect of what the restrictions were, encourage and then the final matter would have been around enforcement. Much of what we were doing was encouraging people to comply but, in the main, the vast majority of people were very compliant with the regulations. The regulations were separate from Government advice. We were enforcing regulations. We were not enforcing what was, in effect, health advice, which had no standing.