Furious father-of-two wearing an ankle monitor refuses to be taken to hotel quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus as he fears he will be sent back to JAIL for breaching his parole
A father-of-two wearing an electronic ankle tag has refused police demands to go into hotel quarantine fearing he would be jailed for breaching his parole.
Bizarre footage shows police and healthcare workers in full PPE on the Sydney man's doorstep, apparently trying to take him away.
But the man said he had already been warned for breaking his parole restrictions by breaching his ankle tag perimeter to go to Granville and be tested for Covid.
However, the video suggests the test came back positive and authorities wanted to isolate the man in a hotel to protect his household.
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A father of two wearing an electronic ankle tag refused police demands by police and NSW Health workers to go into hotel quarantine for fear it will see him jailed for breaching his parole conditions
The furious man raged: 'See how stupid this system is? I don't want to hear about it anymore.
'I have two little girls here and you want to drag me out to a f**king hotel room?'
The video cuts to the man's left foot where an electronic tag is seen attached to his ankle.
'You know I have an anklet on. You know that if I breach and leave they can lock me up. Well, I'm not leaving,' he said.
One male police officer insisted he had no idea about the ankle tag, but a female officer off-screen said the public health order for Covid 'trumps' the ankle tag.
But the man hit back: 'Much bigger police than both of you told me I'm not allowed to leave here.
'The officer on my case is dying to put me back in jail, so I'm sorry. Come back with a warrant, do what you have to do, I'm not trying to be hard on you.
'But I'm not going to jail for you.'
The man says he's already been warned for breaking his parole restrictions by breaching his ankle tag perimeter to go to Granville to be tested for Covid
The male police officer clutching a clipboard warned him the situation would only end with him either coming with them peacefully or under arrest.
The man insisted he would be arrested and jailed if he complied with the public health order.
'My office came here the other day and told me I had breached because I'd gone to Granville when I went to get a swab test because one of these guys told me to go.
'He came to arrest me. If I didn't tell him I had Covid, I was going to get arrested.
'Just so you know who we deal with - I'll be sitting in this hotel room and he'll come and arrest me.'
The video clip ends before the stand-off is resolved.
NSW Police confirmed they attended the home but said they were there to assist NSW Health.
The man insisted though he would be arrested and jailed if he complied with the public health order. Seen here is a stock image of NSW Police on Covid patrol in Sydney on Sunday
On Sunday, Premier Gladys Berejiklian insisted the incident was not an example of the authorities over-reaching their powers.
'Unfortunately it's not always the rules that are the challenge is the fact that people choose to break them,' she said.
'We also need to make sure that we take every measure we can to ensure people are doing the right thing.'
NSW Chief Medical Officer Dr Kerry Chant added: 'I'm not going to prosecute the specifics of a case in public.
'There will be a variety of reasons whether people are in a safe enough environment, or whether there's other reasons we don't think they can be fully self contained.'