Met Police launches patrols to protect women and girls from violence at concerts

The Metropolitan Police has introduced patrols aimed astatine keeping women and girls harmless astatine concerts.

The caller patrols travel up of 51 large-scale euphony events owed to instrumentality spot successful London this summer, with much than 3 cardinal radical acceptable to be shows astatine Wembley Stadium alone.

The patrols started connected 5 June with Beyonce's performance astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with the cognition starring to the removal of an idiosyncratic connected suspicion of stalking and threatening behaviour, arsenic good arsenic the apprehension of a antheral for upskirting, who remains connected constabulary bail.

The patrols person been introduced alongside the V100 project, a caller data-driven attack to place superior intersexual offenders and forestall crimes.

Ben Russell, lawman adjunct commissioner for the Metropolitan Police, said 177 of the V100 nominals had already been arrested, and 129 of them person been convicted for a scope of superior offences.

"The V100 is our attack to identifying those men who are astatine the apical extremity of carrying retired the astir superior and harmful attacks against women and girls - that's aggregate superior intersexual assaults.

"Thankfully, determination are a comparatively tiny fig of offenders who we judge are down the astir superior crimes.

"And this is astir identifying done our information the men posing the biggest hazard of women and girls successful London and taking enactment successful a precise targeted, precise way."

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The patrols enactment connected some engaging with the public, "helping radical to consciousness safe, and letting them cognize that if they've got concerns, they tin travel and talk to us", Mr Russell said.

"But the different portion to it has a overmuch harder edge, which is looking astatine the assemblage and saying, 'who should not beryllium here?'.

"So that volition not beryllium truthful disposable to mean concert-goers, but we volition attack radical we deliberation should not beryllium determination and we volition marque definite they permission venues and permission the areas arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."

An further 565 officers and unit person been drafted into nationalist extortion roles crossed the force, aimed astatine enhancing the home abuse, rape and intersexual offence probe teams.

Mr Russell added: "For america and the Met, protecting women and girls has been 1 of our fig 1 priorities for a portion now, and we're moving truly intimately with the authorities connected that, and we're supportive of the ngo to effort and halve unit against women and girls, implicit the beingness of this parliament."