MPA Chair Kit Malthouse congratulates Met for Notting Hill Carnival policing

Department: Metropolitan Police Authority

Published: 2010-09-01 16:10:30

47/1031 August 2010 Kit Malthouse congratulated the Met for their successful policing of Notting Hill Carnival saying: "I want to pay tribute to the superb police operation over the weekend which meant that both Sunday and Monday passed relatively peacefully with crime falling by a third compared to last year. "There is no doubt that the overall success of this year’s Notting Hill Carnival and the much lower crime rate owes much to the tireless efforts of all those involved with the organisation. I congratulate everyone who contributed to the safety and smooth running of the largest carnival in Europe – including  Specials and all the partners the Met worked with in the run up to Carnival. "I also want to commend the officers involved in Operation Razorback, the proactive policing operations that led to more than a hundred people being arrested in the four weeks running up Carnival, and took large amounts of weapons and drugs out of circulation.  "It is despicable that a small element of people tried to disrupt the close of Carnival by throwing bottles and objects at the police. But the overwhelming fact is that over one million people went along to Carnival to enjoy themselves and had a fantastic time."

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