At the final day of London Notting Hill Carnival, a police officer was sexually assaulted, and six others were bitten according to report.
About seventy-five officers in total were assaulted at the festival, which took place on Sunday and Monday according to Metropolitan Police Federation (MPF)
According to report, six of those were bitten and one needed hospital treatment. “Once again Notting Hill Carnival marred by serious violence - and attacks on police officers,” the MPF, a staff association representing officers in the capital, said in a statement.
“This is absolutely disgusting no wonder our members dread policing this event.”
The Metropolitan Police said in that while “most people” had an enjoyable experience at the carnival Monday evening was “marred” by a spate of stabbings.
Two men were hospitalised after getting stabbed as the festival came to a close.
The force said a 29-year-old man was in critical condition in hospital following a stabbing in Warfield Road, just off Harrow Road, shortly after 9pm on Monday.
A 19-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in hospital after he was stabbed in Ladbroke Grove shortly before 8pm.
Police said six other men, aged 18, 19, 20, 25, 28 and 40, sustained non-life-threatening injuries in separate stabbing incidents throughout Monday evening.
There were 275 arrests across the two days of the carnival, with 165 arrests on Monday for a range of offences, including possession of offensive weapons, assaults on police officers, possession of drugs and sexual offences.
Deputy assistant commissioner Ade Adelekan, who oversaw the policing operation, said: “It is regrettable that for a second year in a row, Monday night at Carnival has been marred by serious violence.
“Nobody disputes the significance
of Carnival on London’s cultural calendar and the overwhelming majority of
those who came will have had a positive experience.
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