A former Scotland Yard inspector has said that the Notting Hill Carnival is a classic example of “two-tier policing” as the police are very “hesitant to make arrests” in fear of being called racists.
Former detective inspector Mike Neville said that the behaviour seen at the Carnival at any other event “would be banned” as people “openly smoke drugs” and the police walk away.
“If the behaviour of the Notting Hill Carnival was replicated at football matches or any other event it would be banned,” he told The Telegraph.
You see people openly smoking drugs, abuse of police officers, dancing with female officers to the point of sexual assault.
Police officers are “told to only arrest,” revelers in the “most extreme circumstances,” whatever that is.
Of course, Scotland Yard has denied the allegations of two-tier policing at the Notting Hill Carnival and will “intervene” whoever is “committing violence,” but will this extend to the use illegal drugs?
Commander Charmain Brenyah said, “Officers will be maintaining a vigilant presence in and around the carnival in an effort to identify and intervene against anyone intent on committing violence.
“They will use their search powers where there are grounds to do so in order to take weapons off the streets.”
He added the “numbers [of people] have grown so significantly over the years that the scale of the modern-day event is unrecognisable.”
Last year there was 275 arrests, 80 police officers were assaulted and eight people were stabbed.
