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Noah Vickers

Sir Mark Rowley: Met Police 'severely bent out of shape' by protests and hate crimes

The Met Police has been severely “bent out of shape” by the strain of policing the central London protests over the conflict in Israel and Gaza, City Hall has been told.

Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley admitted on Wednesday that the protests and offences related to the conflict had required officers to be re-deployed from different parts of the force “more clumsily than I would like”.

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