How long can overstretched Met Police cope if Palestine Action protests continue?
IN 2024 was arrested for a total of 248 people in the UK due to terrorist activities.
Within a few hours on Saturday, the metropolitan police arrested more than twice as much as he was handcuffed in accordance with the laws of terrorism because 522 protesters opposed the banner: orum I support the Palestinian action in the face of genocide. ”
If they were sentenced to support a prohibited organization in accordance with the law of terrorism, half of those sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment – 15 Octogenarian, including over 60 years of age. Many were applauded by the audience for withdrawing by the officers.
The scale of the struggle forced Met’i police stations to use a “street guarantee” system to prevent the overwhelming of those who were defined as “an important collective challenge action in parliamentary Square by the organizers.
The force used two processing points in Westminster and was ordered to appear at a police station, which was asked to confirm its details before being released.
Probably because they refused to verify their identities or already in police bail, a total of 212 people were detained.
MET said that some people are aware of online photographs and images that show that they returned to Parliament Square after being released on bail, but recognizing these individuals would be “completely unrealistic”.
In the coming weeks, civil servants from the counter terrorism command of the Met will work to bring together the case files and secure wages against the arrested. In some cases, the accusations will also require approval by Attorney General Lord Hermer.
However, the threat of arrest and prison seems to be doing very little to deterre the supporters who promised to continue to challenge controversial decisions to ban the direct action group organized by our juries before a Supreme Court Legal Problem in November.
Met said that they have proved that they can respond to the “important protest öyle requiring many arrests and that they can add the following:“ If necessary, we will do this again. ”
However, the arrest of hundreds of terrorist arrests on a 260 million £ financing lack of financing, a personnel recruitment crisis and a regular large-scale rallies due to Israeli-Gaza conflict should not be underestimated.
MET Safety Federation President Paula Dodds, for civil servants, “fatigue emerges,” he warned.
“Officers are overly stretched, resting days are canceled,” he said Independent. “As we try to make sure we have jobs as usual to keep the police protests and London safe, permission can be canceled in the coming weeks.
“If these protesters continue to go out, we will have to call more mutual assistance officers to help. It was just cruel and I think we will see it for a while.”
The commitment of crimes to be transferred to the CPS, the investigation of crimes and the construction of the files warned the workload, increased the demand in all departments at a time when the force was already forced.
Only in the coming weeks, civil servants face more anti -immigrant protests in hotel housing asylum seekers, the restart of the football season, and the threat of managing the Notting Hill Carnival.
If the pressure results in increased levels of illness or more officers separated from power, he said, “It will only tell time”.
The protest on Saturday has been behind 221 similar arrests in London since the prohibition of Palestinian action after entering the Raf Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and spraying two military planes in Oxfordshire.
Last week, the first three people were accused of swimming. They will appear in the Westminster Magistrate Court in September.
Ms. Cooper claimed that an assessment found evidence of “ideas for more attacks ,, which could not be reported due to ongoing legal proceedings and continued to defend the prohibition of the direct action group.
“Many people may not yet know the reality of this organization, but the assessments are very clear – this is not an uncommon organization,” he said. “British National Security and Public Security must always be our most important priority.”
Huda Ammori, the founding partner of the Palestinian Action, claimed that the latest show was “humiliating ve for Mrs. Cooper, and that“ an unprecedented attack on our fundamental freedoms will enter the history of our country as an important action of the collective challenge ”.
He said that most of the arrested in the protest proved that the fact that the current ban was “unacceptable” was the fact that most of the arrested was “street bail and allowed to go home”.
“It is clear that this anti-democratic, authoritarian ban is horrified, and that more ordinary people will challenge against it and that it is not possible to arrest them all.
