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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Police missed clues about dangers of far right before summer riots in England

Protesters confront police officers during an anti-immigration demonstration outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
The report calls for a national coordinator with the powers to order chiefs to hand over riot-trained officers to be deployed around the country in the event of a national emergency caused by riots. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Police intelligence missed clues about the dangers posed by the far right before the summer riots across England, a police chief has said.

Andy Cooke, the chief inspector of constabulary, also said police were too slow to mobilise after disorder broke out, meaning some violence wasworse than it would otherwise have been, with the chance to thwart some of it missed.

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