As the busy Bank Holiday weekend approaches, the Met is set to deploy thousands of police officers to London’s streets to help keep communities safe and respond to any serious disruption or crime and disorder related to protests or other events

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A number of demonstrations are being organised by various groups during the course of the weekend, this includes on-going direct action by Extinction Rebellion. Separately, the Met will deploy officers to a number of football matches, music festivals as well as to the footprint of where the Notting Hill Carnival would have been taking place.