Overview

• At Notting Hill Carnival, the Met says LFR led to 61 arrests, including 16 for serious violence and 13 related to violence against women and girls.
• Rowley credited the deployments with one of the safest Carnivals in years, citing year-on-year falls of 70% in robbery, 53% in violence and 8% in sexual offences.
• The year-to-date arrests attributed to LFR include 50 registered sex offenders alleged to be in breach of their conditions.
• The force plans to test deploying drones alongside officers to support searches, traffic incident response and large public events.
• Eleven civil-liberty and anti-racist groups have opposed the deployments as mass surveillance with lower accuracy for women and people of colour, while Rowley said the Met chose its algorithm with care.