UK police under ‘chronic pressure’ due to asylum hotel protests and Palestine Action arrests
Under stretching, police forces, immigrant crisis and tensions on the war in Gaza exacerbated the three -year record protests this summer.
According to the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) figures, the forces in the United Kingdom faced the highest number of 3,081 protests between June and August.
This exceeds the protests in the last summer, seeing that the forces struggled with 2942 protests in the same three -month period in 2024 and increased three times in the 928 demonstration in 2023.
NPCC President Gavin Stephens warned the leaders to avoid more division from bread, and warned the forces under “chronic pressure”.
“It is clear that we can see more community tension and more divisions for all of us,” he said. “And I think it’s a responsibility to set the tone of all of us, including the police.”
“Everyone in the leadership position should think about how we can and spread, not bread and spreading division.”
His comments come in the midst of widespread protests in Hotels residence asylum seekers and in the midst of an increasing reaction of his home office to appoint the Palestinian action as a terrorist group.
The police are preparing for protest until 40 this weekend; In London, another important demonstration in which up to 1,000 people organize signs that support the banned group and risk arrest.
Although the widespread disorder of the last summer is acute, this year, protests are more chronic pressure for the police, Mr. Stephens, a recent welfare survey, 55 percent of civil servants showed permanent physical fatigue, he said.
Saying that communities would find their own ways to reunite and “reset ,, claimed that the country was“ exaggerated ”on the verge of civil disobedience.
The authority said that the police “absolutely support” the right to protest the peaceful protest, but was asked a lot of forces operating under an old infrastructure model called for investment in the police reform.
The forcing of the ongoing protest activity directs “us financial cost” and officers from their daily duties, and said that the investment police will provide “slow progress” in meeting key goals such as knife crime and violence against women and girls.
“I think people, staff and volunteers who respond to this, need to understand that the same civil servants, staff and volunteers who do all the other things asked to the police.”
“And so they come from the intervention teams and the investigation teams and the neighborhood policing teams and roads.
“We do not have an extra source for public order and public security.”
Police leaders are forcing the great reform of the structure of the forces in England and Wales and how they are financed.
A government about the potential changes in the service is expected to be published in the coming months.
Mr. Stephens said: uz We ask the people in the infrastructure that we have now. ”
The chefs want more power at the national level with a stronger national center, changes in the current “slow and bulky” decision -making process of 43 forces and a revision of how the fund is calculated for each power.
