KUANTAN: Forty-five patrons of a popular restaurant in Jalan Teluk Sisek here were issued with compound fines for failing to adhere to the recovery movement control order (RMCO) standard operating procedures (SOP).
Kuantan district police chief Mohamad Noor Yusof Ali said the compounds, amounting to between RM1,500 and RM2,000, were issued to the 45, which included seven women, after an inspection at 11.55pm at the restaurant found, among others, that the patrons did not practise any physical distancing.
“Two of the customers were also fined for not scanning their entry using the MySejahtera application. When asked, one of them showed us a backdated registration which was done on April 21.
“We found they were crowding tables although there were many empty tables available and the excuse given was that they were not aware of the 1m physical distancing rule,” he said in a statement here today.
Mohamad Noor said a RM10,000 compound fine was also issued to the restaurant’s management for failing to ensure customers complied with the SOP.
“The management told us that they had advised the customers but they refused to listen. To us, the restaurant should have called the police or the city council enforcement (division) when faced with such a situation,” he said.
Mohamad Noor added that he hoped that this would be a lesson to the public and eateries management in Kuantan to comply with the SOP in curbing the spread of Covid-19.
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