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Ted Hennessey

Essex disorder was ‘signal flare’ of rising unrest and cracks in police forces

Police outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

Disorder in Essex was a “signal flare” of rising unrest and exposes cracks in police forces across the country, the head of a police body said.

There has been a series of demonstrations outside the Bell Hotel in Epping since an asylum seeker was charged with sexual assault this month.

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