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| Met's G20 plan was 'inadequate' | Met's G20 plan was 'inadequate' |
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| A watchdog has said the Metropolitan Police's planning for the London G20 protests in April was inadequate. | A watchdog has said the Metropolitan Police's planning for the London G20 protests in April was inadequate. |
| Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said the force had responded well to some of the challenges posed by the world summit. | Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said the force had responded well to some of the challenges posed by the world summit. |
| But it said the force had not planned for the peaceful but highly disruptive Climate Camp in the City of London. | But it said the force had not planned for the peaceful but highly disruptive Climate Camp in the City of London. |
| One man died after the London protests and investigators are looking at other formal complaints about police actions. | One man died after the London protests and investigators are looking at other formal complaints about police actions. |
| In his wide-ranging report, the inspector of constabulary Denis O'Connor said police tactics had been far too focused on tackling violence, such as the sporadic clashes outside the Bank of England, rather than facilitating peaceful protests during other parts of the day. | |
| We live in an age where public consent of policing cannot be assumed Denis O'Connor, HMIC 'Too few trained police' for G20 | |
| He supported the police's controversial "kettling" tactics to surround crowds - but said they had been inconsistently applied during the G20. | |
| On some occasions officers had allowed people to pass through security cordons - but at other times protesters and the public had been completely contained. | |
| This inconsistent application of a key tactic had been very carefully documented by the public who had uploaded footage to the internet from their camera phones. | |
| This had exposed the police to unprecedented scrutiny, the report said, raising important questions about the police's broader approach to policing demonstrations. | |
| Mr O'Connor said the current protest training manual was insufficient and needed to be rethought before the 2012 Olympics. | |
| "What the review identifies is that the world is changing and the police need to think about changing their approach to policing protests," he said. | |
| "We live in an age where public consent of policing cannot be assumed and policing, including public order policing, should be designed to win the consent of the public." | |
| Mr O'Connor said that the police should allow demonstrators clear routes out of a kettle cordon and guarantee access to toilets or other facilities. | |
| Members of the public who were inadvertently caught up, or those vulnerable or distressed, should always be allowed to leave. |