Just Stop Oil Protests Cost Met Police Nearly £20 Million

Published on December 7, 2023

Policing the eco-activists Just Stop Oil (JSO) has cost taxpayers nearly £20 million, according to Metropolitan Police figures. In a statement on Thursday, the Met said that since JSO’s first campaign in October 2022, £19.9 million had been spent on the group to date, with £3.5 million spent since October this year alone. JSO is protesting the government awarding new oil contracts to businesses and is behind a wave of illegal actions, such as blocking access to petrol stations and parts of the M25, breaching High Court injunctions, and more. Police said that a total of 657 arrests were made over the last five weeks as officers “worked to keep London moving in the face” of disruption....

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