A police commissioner has dismissed criticism of the force she is charged with overseeing following protestors staging a protest on the roof of the Prime Minister’s constituency home.
North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Zoe Metcalfe said the force’s response to the incident at Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, on August 3 had been “exceptionally good”. Mrs Metcalfe made to the comments to the county’s police, fire and crime panel, a watchdog of councillors and experts who scrutinise her performance, after she concluded a review of how North Yorkshire Police dealt with the Greenpeace activists.
He said: “It is clearly in my view a major breach of security.” Appearing before the panel for the first time since the incident, the commissioner was asked to confirm that she had reviewed the police response to the protest, especially in view of “adverse publicity” the force had received as a result of its actions.
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