An entrepreneur living in the North has reportedly been refused access to the Line Barracks Police Station on Monday over claims that he had not yet received his COVID-19 booster dose.
The entrepreneur (name retained) was cited as telling l’Express newspaper that someone had attempted to break into his company in Pailles.
“I find this outrageous. The first thing one of the policemen asked me was if I got my booster shot. I told him no. Another policeman then intervened and told me that he could not let me enter the police station because they had received orders to let in only those who had two vaccines and the booster dose.
“I was the victim of an attempted robbery and I could not file a complaint. What if something worse had happened to me? I did not insist and I left,” l’Express cited the businessman as claiming.
The COVID-19 Consolidated Regulations stipulate that access to police stations and Line Barracks are prohibited to non-vaccinated persons, including police officers.
However, the regulations do not apply to those who need the police services, namely a detainee, a person under arrest, a person wishing to give a statement, a victim of crime or those who have been released on parole and who have the obligation to report to the police station regularly.
However, the newspaper cited Inspector Shiva Coothen, of the Police Press Office, as confirming that “a person who needs police services and who has to file a complaint does not need a booster shot to do so.”
