Far-right rioters to face firm justice, police chief says
Sir Andy Marsh says a new approach to policing has been taken in the wake of far-right riots to ensure those who are inciting violence are swiftly arrested and brought to justice. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Every police force will have significant numbers including neighbourhood police out on their streets
00:04today, tonight, making sure that people can go about their lives as safely and as normally as
00:09possible. We've changed our approach actually, we would normally work from something that's called
00:14mutual aid where a force can't cope, they apply for mutual aid either in advance or spontaneously.
00:21We know that that's not quick enough, that's exactly the reason why we're moving to this new
00:26approach for this series of violence so that we can get the right numbers of officers
00:31quickly enough to the right place to arrest the people that are responsible before a court and
00:36protect the communities, that's our priorities. I hope that anyone who was thinking about
00:41joining a criminal act, not talking about protests, a criminal act, violent crime,
00:46thuggery, whatever you want to call it, will think very carefully about the sentences they've heard
00:52given out in the North West today and I've heard what the
00:56Crown Prosecution Service have said, this is the tip of the iceberg.
00:59I've also heard what the DPP has said and they are going to do everything they can to make sure
01:04that there's swift, firm and effective justice.