Police warn of G20 protest scale

[TriWooOx]

Quote:Known activists are planning in an "unprecedented" way ahead of next month's G20 summit in London, the Metropolitan Police have warned.

Cdr Bob Broadhurst, in charge of the policing operation, said anarchists and environmentalists were plotting a series of demonstrations.

Groups active in the late 1990s were re-emerging and forming new alliances to protest at the meeting, he said.

The operation will involve thousands of officers and cost an estimated £7.2m.

World leaders, including US President Barack Obama, will begin to arrive in the UK on 31 March.

The next day campaigners are expected to target the City of London in a series of anti-globalisation and climate change demonstrations.

As the G20 summit begins on 2 April, protests are also planned at the Excel conference centre in Docklands.

Numbers challenge

Cdr Broadhurst said officers from six forces would be involved in a massive security operation before and during the summit.

However, it was difficult to estimate how many protesters would actually turn up on the main day of activity on 1 April.

"Clearly there are some very innovative and clever people and they know our tactics," Cdr Broadhurst said. "They want to stop the City on the Wednesday - that is their avowed intention."

He said it was his aim to "facilitate lawful protest" and he revealed plans for a special demonstration pen near the Excel Centre to accommodate a few hundred protesters.

But while police had worked closely with some campaigners, the plans of other groups were harder to ascertain.

"Anarchists by definition won't come and see us," he said.

'Unhappy bedfellows'

He said there was no intelligence to suggest there was a terrorist attack planned, but there was evidence that groups not seen since the 1990s, such as direct action exponents Reclaim the Streets and the Wombles, were re-forming and planning activity.

Students were also involved in larger numbers than before, he said, and there was some evidence that foreign activists were heading to the UK to take part in the protests.

Police are expecting activists to block streets and hold demonstrations heading in several directions at once.

"Hitting us at the same time for a day, that is the stretch, that is causing the issues, rather than protecting people, which is our core business," said Cdr Broadhurst.

He added: "There will be times when protest comes up against security and they are not always happy bedfellows."

Cdr Broadhurst said police were facing a particular challenge during the G20 because it falls in the same week as a state visit from the president of Mexico, the England football team's games against Slovakia and Ukraine at Wembley and the Boat Race.

Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson admitted policing the summit and protecting the 20 world leaders and 40 delegations was a "huge challenge".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7955057.stm

[Guest]

I wish I could attend.

[TriWooOx]

This is going to be good I think, the amount of police is going to be insane.

[Guest]

The closer the spacing, the easier to cut them down... or set fire to them etc etc. ;)

[icosaface]

Never attack where and when they expect you to attack... Common Sense 101

What is the point of putting yourself in the firing line? Do you think that the media will report what happens in a way that shows what your honourable intentions were? They won't, they are mouthpiece organizations for the NWO. Lets start winning, lets figure out how to disrupt them so badly that they will be totally disheveled. To hell with being canon fodder!

Never publicize your plans of attack.... Common Sense 101

[Guest]

Quote:What is the point of putting yourself in the firing line?

You have to ask me that question? Are you fucking serious?
Why did a brave mofo stand in front of a tank in Tienimen Square? (sp?)

If you don't abide by "liberty or death", how low are you will to stoop for them?
Will you grab your ancles?


You know how I see it?

Riot cops don't carry guns lest they be taken from them... hence the shields and the truncheons.
Unless they got marksmen up on roofs, the street level coppers are fair game for a beating.
Do you want to fight the NWO or protest it?