fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 days agoMet Police spends 10m on Palestine Action protests and other events in just one month
We accept that this is all part of policing in a capital city, but it does present unique cost and resourcing pressures for the Met. All the officers you see out on these busy protest and event days have other core roles and while we have done a lot to limit the number of officers pulled away from frontline duties, it is inevitable that there will still be an impact on other policing priorities.
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