Deputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor says the Metropolitan Police are “doing everything we can” to “ensure people are safe” ahead of a pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day. He goes on to say that it is a “difficult weekend for policing” due to it being “remembrance weekend” and “the tensions that we’re seeing in our communities on the back of the conflict in Israel”.
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00:00 We've got some really comprehensive policing plans in place over this weekend.
00:04 We've used all of the powers that are available to us to manage protests, counter-protests,
00:10 because everybody has a right to feel safe coming into London and veterans and others
00:15 have the right to go and remember the fallen at the Cenotaph this weekend.
00:21 So there are challenges.
00:24 This is a really difficult policing weekend and we are clear that it is going to be difficult
00:30 for us, but we are doing everything that we can with a very significant policing response
00:35 to ensure that people are safe.
00:37 We are aware, obviously, of the main pro-Palestinian march and we've been engaged with organisers.
00:43 We've seen a lot of conversation and we do have intelligence that there will be people
00:46 coming for a counter-protest and the police's job this weekend is to keep everybody safe,
00:52 whether exercising their right to protest, whether coming down to counter-protest, but
00:56 particularly for those veterans and our really vulnerable communities who are scared and
01:01 who are frightened.
01:03 Our job is to ensure that they are safe and that they feel safe and that is what our plan
01:07 is there to do.
01:08 It is a difficult weekend.
01:10 It is a tense weekend because of being Remembrance Weekend, but also the tensions that we're
01:15 seeing in our communities on the back of the conflict in Israel.
01:18 It is a difficult weekend for policing and our job is to ensure that people are safe
01:25 to the best of our ability.