Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist confirmed nearly 2,000 officers have been involved in policing the activists every day, adding that they had acted 'swiftly' when demonstrators caused 'serious disruption' to Londoners.
There are around 32,000 police officers in London. Mr Twist told Times Radio on Friday: 'It's not the numbers of protesters but it's the level of serious disruption that they're looking to cause, which is impacting on other Londoners.
'We've said right from the start, we know that Extinction Rebellion have the right to protest and the right to assemble.
'But what we also made clear is these are qualified rights and they have got to be balanced against the rights of the rest of London and Londoners, the people, the businesses, the communities who want to lawfully go about their business.
'Where we've seen cases of both very serious and totally unreasonable disruption looking to be caused, we have to take action and move in and make arrests.'...because she's the one who let you twist in the wind.
Fail to crack down on behaviour when it starts small, and of course you'll see more of it.
I see you've been suspended from Twitter :-(
ReplyDeleteHave you been telling the truth again?
He's ruined his chances of being next commissioner. Truth telling not allowed by greasy pole climbing senior officers.
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"Have you been telling the truth again?"
ReplyDeleteAlways! And...I may well be back in another guise... 😉
"He's ruined his chances of being next commissioner."
With two more years of the Dame of Disaster, will there be a farce at the end of it?