As part of the ongoing investigation, detectives have also been able to identify more people who were injured, with 79 in total.
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00:00While investigations into exactly what led up to the events on Monday remain ongoing,
00:06the head of the Metropolitan Police said forces will more often have to release personal details about suspects earlier
00:12after Merseyside Police confirmed the ethnicity of the suspects in the Liverpool incident within hours.
00:18Seven people remain in hospital in a stable condition following the incident on Water Street on Monday.
00:24As part of the ongoing investigation, detectives have also been able to identify more people
00:29who were injured, with 79 in total who the force are now speaking with.
00:35Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was asked if Merseyside Police were right to release the ethnicity of the suspects.
00:42Sir Mark told BBC Radio 4's Today programme,
00:45I'm not going to criticise another police chief who makes your judgement in a really difficult, complex situation.
00:52It comes after the force confirmed they'd arrested a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area
00:56around two hours after the incident that left dozens of people hurt.
01:01Merseyside Police was criticised in the wake of the Southport murders last summer
01:05for not releasing more information after false rumours were started online
01:10that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker.
01:13In March, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy told MPs
01:16she wanted to dispel disinformation in the immediate aftermath of the Southport murders
01:21by releasing information about attacker Axel Rudicabana's religion
01:25because he came from a Christian family, but was told not to by local Crown prosecutors.
01:31Police did disclose the suspect was a 17-year-old male from Banks in Lancashire
01:35who was born in Cardiff.
01:37Widespread rioting followed the murders,
01:39with some disorder targeting mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers.