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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m in six weeks

Police and Just Stop Oil protesters during a demonstration in central London last Thursday.  One demonstrator holds a placard that reads: ‘Betrayed by my government.’
Police and Just Stop Oil protesters during a demonstration in central London last Thursday. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Police have said climate activists’ daily slow march protests through London have cost them millions of pounds and thousands of officer hours in the past six weeks.

As MPs prepared on Monday to debate new police powers to curtail the Just Stop Oil demonstrations, the Metropolitan police said maintaining order around them had cost more than £4.5m and the equivalent of almost 13,770 officer shifts.

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