P-05-1117 Give Police Officers the Covid Vaccination as a priority

P-05-1117 Give Police Officers the Covid Vaccination as a priority

This petition was submitted by Graham Bishop, having collected a total of 10,879 signatures.

Text of Petition:                     

Police officers are not on the priority list to receive the Covid-19 vaccination, even though they are in a high risk jobs.

Additional Information:

My son is a police officer who contracted Covid whilst arresting a member of the public. At present he has been off work for 4 weeks and is signed off until the end of December. He passed the virus to his heavily pregnant wife who ended up in the Covid ward in hospital. She had to have an emergency CS with the twins born a month early. Not only are police at high risk to themselves every day, they also risk their families. Additionally the loss of policing time is a great strain on the force when officers are off sick with Covid.

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 02/03/2021.

The Committee considered the correspondence received ahead of the upcoming Plenary debate scheduled for 3 March and agreed that the petitions should be closed following the debate, given that the Committee will have done all it can to raise the profile of this issue and in the context of the advice and recommendations being provided by the JCVI.

Full details of the consideration of this petitions by the committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.

It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 26/01/2021.

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Vale of Glamorgan
• South Wales Central

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