A group of police officers across multiple departments in Switzerland have threatened authorities that they will no longer enforce COVID-19 rules on citizens if they oppose the “general opinion of the population.” In a four-page letter obtained by local Swiss outlet 20 Minutes, an association representing police officers in the Alpine country warned the Swiss Federation of Police Officers (FSFP) of potential insubordination within police forces. “If the measures were to oppose the general opinion of the population, restricting their fundamental rights disproportionately, many police officers will no longer be willing to apply them,” the group said in the letter to the FSFP. The news agency reported that the letter was praised among lockdown critics, who applauded the association on the Telegram social network by writing: “respect” and “we support you.” The FSFP stated that the group amounts to a minority within the police federation’s 26,500 members and dismissed any threat …