A total of 454 arrests were made over the two-day carnival, celebrating its 50th anniversary, with nearly twice as many on Monday compared to Sunday.
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More than 250 people have been arrested at the Notting Hill Carnival.
More than 100 arrests were made at the event that is expected to attract up to one million people over two days during the August bank holiday weekend.
Police said there were four incidents involving people being stabbed, and after one of them a 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of GBH.
Monday will mark the Grand Finale of the west London event’s 50th anniversary, which has this year hosted 60 bands and 38 sound systems.
6,000 police officers were deployed on Sunday and 7,000 on Monday in the Notting Hill Gate and Ladbroke Grove area to man the festival, with new technology being used to scan faces as the Met crackdown on crime at the second biggest carnival procession in the world.
A 20-year-old man was taken to hospital following reports of a stabbing on Portobello Road shortly before 4.30pm.
Police said 105 people were arrested on charges that included drug possession, carrying knives, assault, sexual offenses and theft.
The two-day event, which took place over a United Kingdom bank holiday, is described as Europe’s biggest street party.
Later that afternoon, two boys aged 15 and 16 sustained stab wounds at Ladbroke Grove. None is in a life-threatening condition, police said.
Officers understand that the canister has the capacity to fill 2,250 small canisters representing a total street value of over £150,000.
Another 1,000 small nitrous oxide canisters and associated paraphernalia were seized in a number of separate operations.
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As the street party came to a close on Monday evening, carnival-goers kept on dancing. “In addition, 26 knives were seized by police”, the police’s statement reads. I can actually feel it.
