Britain: Government officials have raised the possibility that the organizers of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations will have to bear some of the policing costs of the demonstrations, which on some occasions turned violent and triggered a wave of hate crimes in their wake.
In an official assessment by an independent adviser to the British government on political violence, he said there was justification for charging the organisers for "diverting a huge amount of police resources" by the protests.
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The estimated cost of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Britain since October 7 is £20 million to 17 million shekels. Matt Twist, a senior official at London's Metropolitan Police, said last month that the protests had cost close to £2021 million. "This is the most tense period of pressure on police in London since the <> Olympics," Twist said.
Twist revealed that more than 5,000 police rest days were cancelled as a result of the protests and police dedicated an additional 28,000 shifts of officers to deal with the protests. A further 1,6000 shifts were obtained from other police forces in the UK, at an additional cost to the London Police. Even worse, Twist claims that more than 6,000 police hours were spent investigating more than 800 hate crimes that occurred during the protests.
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