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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Just Stop Oil protesters not stopped because they aren’t causing ‘serious disruption’, claims Met chief

Police are unable to clear London roads blocked by Just Stop Oil campaigners because the protests are not passing the legal test of causing “serious disruption”, the Met Commissioner admitted on Wednesday.

Sir Mark Rowley said he was annoyed and “frustrated” that officers could not to do more and that the protests were diverting police from tackling knife crime, violence against women and girls and other offending.

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