"The Borough Commander for Havering, Superintendent Mick Smith held a briefing for Local Councillors and members of the business community this afternoon.
He stated that he would deal with specifics and not rumours concerning the recent events that have taken place in the Borough.
The situation affects everyone, not just the police but there had been a concerted effort from the police to deal with matters of lawlessness in a robust and proportionate manner. He thanked residents for the amount of co-operation given to the police from the Havering community, and that included the youth community.’t higher, Supt. Smith explained that an arrest entailed officers being taken off the streets, and that was not the best use of manpower at the present."arrest phase" with officers looking at CCTV coverage and there had been some success with this locally. In some areas, it had even dropped. Few of the crimes reported were actually linked to disorder. Any groups arriving found a reception committee awaiting them. 60 youths had been in the town centre but Supt. Smith stressed this was more of an "audience", to look and see if anything happened. There had been no looting but some minor damage to some shop fronts. The youth attacking Debenhams had been arrested. There has been support from the Special Constabulary and from police volunteer staff. Individual shop owners could make their own decision on closing or not.
He understood that the Government would be giving advice on business insurance on Friday.
Across London as a whole, 922 arrests have been made since last Saturday and 401 persons had been charged so far.
When questioned as to why the number of arrests made wasn
London is now in an
Regarding crime in Havering, there had been NO rise in the levels of crime over the last few days.
On Monday, there had been many rumours of rioters coming into Romford and a robust policing plan had been put in place.
Between 200 and 250 officers are on duty in Havering at any one time and this will continue until next week.
Any business closing early was not done on police advice,
There was NO intelligence to suggest any disorder was coming to the Borough at this time."
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