We have proactively used our powers under the Public Order Act to manage the timings and routes of marches and assemblies, ensuring the groups are kept apart.
Officers will intervene decisively to deal with any breaches, to prevent crime and to respond to any other incidents.
In order to keep those participating in various events safe it will be necessary for us to close roads across Westminster.
It’s likely that this will result in significant disruption and motorists are encouraged to consider using public transport or alternative routes.
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The ‘Uniting the Kingdom’ march is forming up in Victoria Street.
Working with the event organisers we have moved the forming up area north to the junction with Buckingham Gate to help keep the area around the station clear. The march will set off at 12.30pm.
The Stand Up To Racism protest is forming up in Regent Street St James’s.
They will set off at 1pm, heading up and around Piccadilly Circus, down Haymarket and round into the top of Whitehall.
🧵 | Officers made 17 arrests at yesterday’s demonstration.
A number of further potential offences have come to light on social media and we’re now appealing for the public’s help to identify the people in the thread below.
Images will be removed once identities are confirmed.
🧵 | A significant policing operation will be in place in the coming days in response to planned protest and separate memorial events marking the anniversary of the October 7th attacks.
You can read more details at the link below and in this thread.
🧵 | Updates on today's policing operation for protests and other events will be posted on this thread.
Further details, including the Public Order Act conditions that are in place to prevent serious disruption, can be found on our website. news.met.police.uk/news/met-sets-…
Some flyers online suggest the Stand Up To Racism march will finish in Trafalgar Square. This isn't the case. There are conditions requiring it to finish in Whitehall.
We need to keep opposing groups apart to keep the peace. We'll take action against any breaches of conditions.
The march organised by Tommy Robinson set off from the Royal Courts of Justice shortly before 1pm. The front of the march is now at Trafalgar Square where a rally will take place. The rear of the march remains on the Strand.
The protest march organised by ‘Tommy Robinson’ is forming up in the vicinity of Victoria Station.
It will set off towards Parliament Square at 1pm.
In addition to those meeting at the agreed form up point, officers are aware of a number of groups that have gathered in pubs nearby and elsewhere in central London.
They include people known to the police for football violence. Officers are closely monitoring these groups.