Nottingkill Festival : UK DIEversity on display

Notting Hill Carnival 2025: One million revellers party in west London as police make face-scanning arrests

Met Police make 140 arrests – 105 at the carnival and 35 on approaches to the event – by 7.45pm on Sunday in a proactive public safety crackdown

The partying at Notting Hill Carnival will move into full gear on Monday as the main parade attracts hundreds of thousands of revellers to west London.

Revellers will be basking in hot sunshine with temperatures expected to peak at 27C on the second and final day of Europe’s biggest street party….

…Fifteen arrests were for assaults on police – with one officer requiring hospital treatment for injuries to their hand – while there were 21 for possession of an offensive weapon, 25 for possession of cannabis and six for possession of class A drugs.

Four people were arrested on suspicion of sexual offences and two for robbery.

Thirteen arrests were made after suspects were identified using live facial recognition technology, which is being deployed at the carnival for the first time this year.

The technology uses drones that can identify individuals from up to 80m (260ft) away, which then feed images to officers….

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