Rowley: Police won't allow asylum sector to be intimidated
Met Police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has insisted the police will not allow the immigration and asylum lawyers to be intimidated by the far-right amid mobs' plans to target these venues. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We've seen that list circulated. Obviously, that's at the centre of our planning for tonight,
00:05also keeping an open mind on other possibilities and other intelligence that's coming into our
00:09system. That's why we have thousands of officers on tonight. We will protect those people.
00:13It is completely unacceptable, regardless of your political views, to intimidate
00:18any sector of lawful activity. And we will not let the immigration asylum system be intimidated.
00:26They're operating lawfully. The thugs and criminals who are targeting them are not,
00:31and we will stop that. Protecting communities is at the core of policing. That's why, as police
00:36chiefs, we've been meeting regularly over the last few days, and we've decided to marshal
00:40thousands of police officers across the country. We've changed our tactics in the last couple of
00:44days. So, besides marshalling more officers, we're brigading some of them at key strategic
00:50locations across the country to give us more agility to respond to wherever the protests are
00:55most intense, so that we can respond with agility and show overwhelming force,
01:00so that the criminals and thugs on the streets don't succeed.