‘We’ll arrest people quicker at protests from now on’: Met police deputy chief

Assistant commissioner says force hasn't got everything right' in past year in its handling of large demonstrations over Gaza and the environment

Arrests at large protests, including those organised by pro-Palestine and environmental groups, will probably be made more quickly in the future, the Metropolitan police's assistant commissioner has said. Matt Twist also suggested that the force had not got everything right" in handling demonstrations over the past year.

The capital has seen a number of large-scale protests since October last year, some of which have drawn hundreds of thousands of people to central London. Among them were demonstrations held by Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.