The Metropolitan Police urge people not to take matters into their own hands in the face of growing frustration and anger at the climate activists' tactics.
"We also have specialist officers available to deal with a range of tactics, including sophisticated lock-on devices."However, Just Stop Oil do not engage with police in advance to share where they may protest or how many may be involved."Just Stop Oil: 'Do you love your children?'
Ms Findlay added:"As their actions are spontaneous and could take place anywhere across the capital, we are having to use more officers to respond, regardless of whether any action takes place or not." This had meant diverting police from dealing with pressing frontline duties including tackling knife crime and responding to burglaries, she said.Ms Findlay added:"I completely understand the frustration and anger felt by the public, who are seriously disrupted by a relatively small number of protesters and their deliberate tactics.
"Activists are affecting people's businesses, their lives, whether they are on their way to a doctor, a long-awaited hospital appointment, on their way to work, to interviews, or to collect children." Pledging a"proportionate policing response", she said:"We will arrive quickly, deal with the situation efficiently, remove and arrest activists as appropriate and return things to normal as soon as possible.Just Stop Oil should be named a terrorist group, PM told"We are determined to bring to justice all those activists who cause disruption or damage to London," Ms Findlay added.
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