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Notting Hill Carnival - update on incidents and arrests
Please see below for a breakdown of incidents and arrests at this year's Notting Hill Carnival.
Officer assaults
We can now confirm that over the two days of Notting Hill Carnival, there were 61 incidents where officers were assaulted - 24 on Sunday and 37 on Monday.
The assaults mostly involved kicks, punches or pushes. There were four incidents where officers were spat at, two where where officers were headbutted and two where officers had glass bottles thrown at them.
Serious assaults
In total at Carnival this year there were eight stabbings.
On Sunday, three people were stabbed. Two sustained non-life threatening injuries and one, a 32-year-old woman, remains in a critical condition.
On Monday, five people were either stabbed or slashed. Three sustained non-life threatening injuries. Two men were taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition - one of the men is now stable and we await a further update on the second man.
A 41-year-old man remains in a critical condition in hospital having sustained a head injury during an assault in Queensway at around 23:20hrs.
Arrests
There were 349 arrests over the weekend – 102 on Sunday and 247 on Monday.
A breakdown is below:
| Offence | Sunday | Monday | Total |
| Possession of an offensive weapon | 18 | 54 | 72 |
| Assault on an emergency worker | 16 | 37 | 53 |
| Sexual offences | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| Violence with injury | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Other violence | 5 | 16 | 21 |
| Possession of a firearm | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Possession with intent to supply drugs | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| Possession of class A drugs | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Possession of class B drugs | 13 | 40 | 53 |
| Possession of nitrous oxide | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Possession of drugs (other) | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Theft from a person | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Other theft offences | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Robbery | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Vehicle crime | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Harassment | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Public order | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| Other offences | 9 | 28 | 37 |
| Total | 102 | 247 | 349 |
