A new report by HMICFRS criticizes the police response to the summer riots in the UK, finding that they failed to adequately assess the rising tide of violence and misinformation.
A Muslim Chaplain in Liverpool praised the police response to the riots over the summer, saying “at an individual level, they went through a lot”. His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) published a new report on Wednesday on how police forces dealt with disorder that broke out after the murder of three girls at a holiday dance class in Southport.
It found that a number of events leading up to the summer riots showed escalating tensions and unrest, but this had not been reflected in police intelligence assessments.The report said: 'We have found that the series of incidents of violence and disorder across the UK during 2023 and 2024 should have influenced the police service's assessments of threat and risk.'Our assessment of these incidents suggests that the risks of disorder were greater than the police believed them to be.'They involved extreme nationalist sentiment, aggravated activism or serious disorder. The incidents highlighted included: disorder near asylum seeker hotels in Merseyside and Rotherham in February 2023, riots after two teenagers died in an e-bike crash in Cardiff, and in 2024, unrest in Harehills, Leeds; the stabbing of a soldier in Kent; and a protest in Rochdale over footage of police officers using force while making arrests at Manchester Airport.Chief Inspector of Constabulary Andy Cooke said: 'We found the police decisions to co-ordinate and mobilise those public order officers nationally were made too late, and the police didn't have a proper intelligence picture of the rising tide of violence. 'There were gaps in their intelligence functions, especially around the analysis of social media and other dark web media, and no one understood or could counter the emerging cause and effect of that misinformation and disinformation.'So the police failed adequately to denounce it or mitigate against it in real time to deter or curtail the disorde
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