Metropolitan Police licensing officers working at this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival have seized over 150 canisters of nitrous oxide from Wormington Road, Kensington and Chelsea.
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Police said there were four incidents involving people being stabbed. It came after 156 arrests made on Sunday. This year’s arrest count is nothing compared to that of 2015, when over 400 people ended up in custody. Sympathy has been expressed via social media by many of those in attendance, as well as those in the Notting Hill area, towards the families who experienced terror as the conflict broke out.
Many shops, homes and business board up ahead of the carnival to prevent damage. Something needs to be done.
“The organisers need to understand that this event can not carry on regardless”.
This is not a peaceful and fun-loving event that our members look forward to policing.
“A seemingly growing number of people appear intent on hijacking this Carnival and turning it into a Bank Holiday battleground”.
A man also approached officers at Kensal Rise tube station, telling them that he had been stabbed, before leaving the scene. It’s completely and utterly unacceptable.
Both of their conditions are not life threatening and no arrests have been made, police said.
Many of these related to the possession of drugs and offensive weapons but four related to sexual offences and 11 were for assaults on police.
On Sunday afternoon, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed in Wornington Road – which runs parallel to the carnival route – with a 14-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
London police have arrested more than 100 people amid sporadic violence at the annual Notting Hill Carnival, an annual celebration of Caribbean culture in the British capital that often includes trouble on the sidelines.
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Officers also seized a large amount of compressed nitrous oxide.
