Police forces have dealt with a record number of three years under stress Protest In this summer, the migrant crisis and the war broke out on the war.
Forces faced in Britain 3,081 protests In three years between June and August, the highest number of data Council of national police chiefs (NPCC) reveal.
This is more Protest activity During the previous summer riots, which witnessed forces with 2942 protests over a period of the same three months in 2024, and three times in 928 demonstrations in 2023.
NPCC president Gavin Stephens warns Growing stress Putting forces under “chronic pressure” as he urged the leaders to avoid sowing of divisions further.
“It is clear for all of us that we can see more community stress and more division,” he said. “And I think we all have a responsibility, involving policing, to set the tone.”
He said: “In any leadership state, no one should think about how we can reduce and divide stress and do not sow the division.”
His comments came amidst extensive protests among hotel housing shelter and a growing response against the decision of the house office. Palestine Action As a terrorist group.
The police are preparing 40 more protests at the end of this week, including another major demonstration in London, including 1,000 people promising to risk arrest by holding the restricted groups.
While the excellent summer disorder was intense, this year the protests were an old pressure for the police, Mr. Stephens said, “Recently with a good survey that shows 55 percent of the constables shown that they are constantly facing physical fatigue.”
He rejected the claims that the country is on the verge of disobedience as “exaggerated”, saying that communities would get their way of reunioning and “reset”.
He said that the police “fully supported” the right to peaceful protest, but warned a lot that the forces working under an old infrastructure model were being asked as they had called for investment in police reform.
The tension of ongoing protest activity is “we cost financially” and is removing the authorities from day to day duties, saying that without investment, the police made “slow progress” on meeting knife crime and major goals such as violence against women and girls.
“I think people need to understand that officers, employees and volunteers who react to it are the same group of officers, employees and volunteers who are doing all the other work asked by the police,” he said.
“And so they come from the reaction teams and investigation teams and neighborhood policing teams and roads.
“We do not have an additional resource for public orders and public safety-it comes from day to day duties.”
Policing leaders are insisting on the major improvement of forces structure in England and Wales and how they are funded.
A government white paper on possible changes in service is expected to be published in the coming months.
Mr. Stephens said: “We are asking a lot of people in the infrastructure that we are currently with us.”
The Chiefs want more powers at the national level with a strong national center, an overhaul of the current “slow and cumbersome” decision making process and how to calculate funding for each force, an overhaul of it.