Just Stop Oil protests have cost the Metropolitan Police more than £7.7 million in the past 13 weeks, the equivalent of the annual salary of around 200 officers.
Figures released by the force reveal the cost of policing 515 protests carried out by Just Stop Oil (JSO) since April, including slow marches in major roads in London and the disruption of high-profile sporting events.
More than 270 people have been arrested over the period with Matt Twist, the assistant commissioner, warning the disruption was “not protest, but crime”.
