My SHPO prevents me from associating etc with females under 16 - 'FEMALES' is specified in the order.  On a recent visit by the police to my house to check my computer use and so on I was asked if I'd had any contact with children in the last 12 months. I said yes.  Through a family I know, I'd been in the presence of a 3-year old boy - BOY, MALE - on tea and dinner occasions etc.  Given that females are specified in the SHPO, I thought this would be permitted.  No, said the police officer. The officer made me ring the family in question and obliged me to disclose my offence to them.  The officer then rang them to confirm what I had told him about my contact with the boy in question - never unsupervised, never babysat etc.  Children's services have been informed about all this.

The officer has confirmed that I committed no criminal offence, and that it was being treated as a 'safeguarding' matter.

My question is: can the police override (or at least interpret as they wish) the wording of an SHPO, handed down by the court?