Scotland Yard has revealed that officers made 156 arrests on Sunday, and by 8.45pm on Monday, a further 284 arrests had been made.
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A reveler takes part in the Monday parade, during the second and final day of the Notting Hill Carnival, in London, Monday Aug. 29, 2016.
These included two alleged sexual offences, 50 drugs offences, 20 counts of possession of offensive weapons, four counts of actual bodily harm, two of grievous bodily harm, one alleged theft and one public disorder.
The two-day event, started by members of the Afro-Caribbean community, sees costumed performers take to the streets in a parade and dozens of sound systems set up around the Notting Hill streets.
London Ambulance Service said that it had treated more than 1,000 patients and taken 144 to hospital.
Last year’s carnival involved more than 400 arrests and significant violence, including assaults on 21 police and a near-fatal stabbing.
He said: ‘The Glastonbury music festival had 40 arrests this year. The festival is celebrated on the same holiday weekend every year. The carnival is notorious for increasing the criminal rate in the district. Notting Hill had 10 times that amount.
The carnival remains one of Europe’s biggest street parties with hundreds of thousands attending each year.
Four people have been stabbed in a series of knife attacks at the Notting Hill Carnival.
Commander Dave Musker, who led the policing operation this year, said that the new ban on drugs previously known as legal highs had boosted the arrest tally, the highest in more than a decade.
The Met Police Federation has also called for the Mayor to conduct a “full-scale review” after it said more than 40 officers were injured while policing the event. His condition, which was critical, is now not life threatening.
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On Sunday afternoon, a 14-year-old boy was detained over the stabbing of a 15-year-old on Wornington Road in Notting Hill.
