Nearly one in three police officers in England and Wales have been threatened with deliberate infection by someone who is believed to carry the CCP virus, survey results show. “The weaponising of the COVID-19 virus against police officers was revealed to be an emerging threat to health and welfare,” the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), which conducted the survey, said in a press release. Of the 12,471 respondents to the federation’s 2020 Demand, Capacity, and Welfare survey (pdf), 32 percent reported a member of the public who was believed to carry the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus had purposely threatened to breathe or cough on them, while 24 percent said someone had actually done so. A total of 28 percent of the respondents said they had performed pandemic-related duties, including tasks involving CCP virus-related deaths. While just three percent of the officers had tested positive for the CCP …