Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced a new nationwide police initiative to tackle violent disorder following the Southport stabbings. At a press conference with police chiefs, he praised officers for their bravery. Starmer underlined the need for a mobile policing response, shared intelligence, expanded use of facial recognition technology, and preventive measures, including criminal behaviour orders, to restrict the movements of those causing unrest. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00On behalf of the British people who expect their values and their security to be upheld,
00:07we will put a stop to it. I want to thank all of the police officers across the country who have
00:15already, as they do so often, stood up to intimidation and violence in the past few days
00:22and throughout the summer. I can announce today that following this meeting,
00:27we will establish a national capability across police forces to tackle violent disorder.
00:34These thugs are mobile, they move from community to community and we must have a policing response
00:42that can do the same. Shared intelligence, wider deployment of facial recognition technology
00:48and preventative action criminal behaviour orders to restrict their movements before they can even
00:55board a train, in just the same way that we do with football hooligans.