📰 | We have launched a significant, proactive policing operation to identify and arrest people we have strong reason to believe are intent on causing reckless and serious disruption to the public.
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🗣 | @MattTwistMPS: "Acting on intelligence, this operation is fast-moving and will continue this evening and overnight with multiple arrest enquiries underway.
"So far this evening we have made three arrests linked to this activity.
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"This is an evolving situation, and we suspect the intent of these individuals is disproportionate to any legitimate right to protest and clearly crosses the line in to unlawful activity.
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We have officers attending a demonstration outside a commercial building on Cabot Square in Canary Wharf.
A number of officers are on scene, guarding the entrance to the building.
Officers also continue to attend a demonstration by separate group in Canary Wharf along Bank Street. Arrests have been made and units remain on scene.
The group have moved off and travelled to the area around South Kensington.
@CityPolice The group have now stopped near The Bank of England on Queen Victoria St, where they are blocking the road.
Local road closures are in place.
When activists put up a pink table near to Covent Garden, several people were inside the structure, with complicated lock-on devices.
Our specialist teams worked through the night to remove people safely and methodically. Roads were open the following day.
We also responded with @CityPolice when roads around Mansion House were blocked with a complex bamboo structure.
Once again our specialists worked swiftly and safely to dismantle this structure as quickly as possible. Here's a photo as they looked to remove lock-on devices.