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Results of Balcombe policing review due in a “few weeks”

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 6, 2014 • ( 1 Comment )

6/2/14 Sussex police says it hopes an external review of the policing operation at last year’s Balcombe anti-fracking protests will be completed in “the next few weeks”. The review into Operation Mansell is currently being carried out by Hertfordshire Constabulary. The Sussex Chief Constable Martin Richards told the […]

Chief constable says cost of Balcombe protest was “value for money”

By Ruth Hayhurst on February 3, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

3/2/14 The chief constable of Sussex Police, Martin Richards, has said the nearly £4m cost of policing last year’s anti-fracking protests at Balcombe was “value for money”. In an interview with the Mid Sussex Times, he explained: “The public suffered no real serious injury, protestors were allowed to […]