Overview

• Sunday featured J’ouvert and Children’s Day, with the main parade scheduled for Monday on West London’s traditional route.
• Police said around one million people are expected across the weekend, with about 7,000 officers on duty across the capital.
• As of 7:45pm Sunday, 140 arrests were recorded — 105 inside the event and 35 on approaches — including assaults on police, weapons and drug offences, with one officer treated in hospital for a hand injury.
• Live facial recognition is operating on approaches and outside event boundaries, screening arches are positioned at busy entry points, and Section 60 stop-and-search powers run until 2am Monday and again from 10am Monday to 2am Tuesday.
• The Equality and Human Rights Commission and civil liberties groups criticized the facial recognition deployment as breaching human rights law and warned of a chilling effect.