Update on arrests

The Metropolitan Police Service has now arrested 1401 people in

connection with violence, disorder and looting. 808 of these have been

charged.

　

Further facts and figures:

　

Scale of disorder and police response

　

- 22 of London's 32 boroughs saw serious disorder on Monday night.

　

- The number of 999 calls increased by almost 400% in a 24hr period. The

Fire Brigade received over 1,700 to reports of fires burning. At their

peak the number of crime scenes numbered over 500.

　

- As the operation progressed the number of officers increased from

3,000 on Sunday, to 6,000 on Monday, more than the total size of West

Yorkshire police.

　

- Very early on Tuesday, plans were in place to enable 16,000 officers

to be available that night. Mutual aid, the cancellation of all leave

and the support from the Special Constabulary contributed to this.

　

- Police staff also played a key role supporting the operational

response with many people working long hours at short notice.

　

Scale of investigation

　

- In total the Op. Withern investigation team includes around 500

officers. The enquiry is being led by the Homicide & Serious Crime

Command with support from detectives, uniformed officers and police

staff from across the MPS.

　

- We estimate that we currently have around 20,000 hours of CCTV footage

to view, although this is likely to significantly increase as we gather

further material from CCTV, the public and other sources.

　

- Op. Withern has 125 officers dedicated to going through CCTV this

weekend.

- Forensic and crime scene examiners have been working on more than 800

crime scenes.

　

- More than 200 forensic submissions have already been made to labs.

　

- There have been around 7.5million views of the suspect images on the

Met Flickr account.

　

　

　

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Young people need support to develop into responsible adults, and you can help by volunteering. To find out more go to: We are actively involved in supporting and developing young people through programmes such as the Volunteer Police Cadets and other organisations.We work with local communities through our Safer Neighbourhoods teams, schools and partner organisations to respond collectively to issues involving young people. We support the 99% campaign, in the belief that the majority of young people do not commit serious or violent crime.Recent events were pure criminality, causing harm and damage to innocent local people and places, and we will pursue those responsible through the courts.www.youlondon.org.uk and www.do-it.org.uk www.met.police.uk

　

　

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