Masked Thugs Hired to Protect Surveillance Cameras in Hated Scheme

London: ULEZ, the ultra low emission zone, uses cameras to monitor drivers and levy fines against older cars for pollution under the Net Zero climate scheme that is wreaking havoc across the West. ULEZ imposes an unfair tax, curtails travel and is a surveillance scheme. Residents have been destroying the cameras. Some protesters block ULEZ cameras in mobile vans wearing dinosaur costumes. Transport for London hired unidentified mask-wearing security guards who have been characterized as bullies and thugs who intimidate and harm peaceful protesters and residents.

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Summary by JW Williams

The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is a regulation in London that imposes an emissions charge to non-compliant road vehicles such as pre-2006 petrol cars and pre-2015 diesel cars and vans that emit more nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) than later models. Cameras are used to monitor drivers. Owners of older cars are fined £12.50 per day for traveling. The program has been expanded across London under Mayor Sadiq Khan and covers 9 million people. ULEZ is part of the destructive Net Zero climate plan that is spreading across the West. It imposes an unfair tax, curtails travel and is a surveillance scheme.

Agenda 2030.

The program is so unpopular that Khan may be voted out of office in May 2024.

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From The Times (UK)

Masked security “goons” hired to guard Sadiq Khan’s low emission zone cameras have been accused of assaulting and intimidating locals.

Residents in suburban areas of London claimed the “heavies” had harassed them and refused to display their security licence cards when asked, as industry rules require.

The “thuggish” guards are dressed in dark clothing, and sometimes cover their faces with hoodies, balaclavas and surgical masks, while recording campaigners with body-worn CCTV cameras.

The mayor of London’s political opponents, who have pledged to scrap the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) scheme if they win at elections in May, branded the guards’ behaviour “disgusting”.

Heather Watt, 63, claims a security guard purposefully ran her over twice while she was protesting, leaving her walking with a crutch and unable to work. “They just drove at me,” she said. “They hit me off my feet onto the bonnet of their vehicle. I’ve come off the car, I’m hobbling away, with that the car sped up and hit me again into the side of the road.

“It’s totally wrecked my confidence, and I’m a driving instructor. I’m still on a crutch, still hobbling around indoors, my knee and ankle still swells up, it’s very painful.

“I think it’s absolutely awful. We don’t know who they are, they don’t show their security badges when asked and they’re intimidating. I think they’re hiding behind their mask to instigate trouble. All we are is peaceful people trying to protect our community from, as far as I’m concerned, this unlawful tax.”

Watt immediately reported the incident to the Met Police, which is investigating, and locals have raised close to £1,000 to help fund Watt’s recovery.

Claire Dyer, from Biggin Hill in Bromley, southeast London, said: “Their attitude is extremely bad, they are very intimidating. I have been on my own as a woman and they have tried to harass me, intimidate me. They’ll be dressed in balaclavas, hoodies, and skeleton masks. All you can see is their eyes.”

Dyer, 47, added: “It seems like there is a directive for them to try and cause trouble. There have been assaults made by the security on the public that’s been caught on camera, they had taken people’s signs and thrown them away. They tell me I shouldn’t be here, but I’m 100 metres away from my house — it’s them who shouldn’t be here. It’s antagonistic.”

Transport for London said the security was necessary because anti-Ulez protesters had vandalised and stolen hundreds of cameras. It added that the security were held to high standards of professionalism, and had been told they should hide their face only if they feel intimidated by being closely filmed.

The Ulez, which was expanded to outer London in September, now covers nine million people, making it the largest scheme of its kind in the world.

Moving the boundary of the scheme, which charges £12.50 per day for petrol cars registered before 2005, or diesels before 2015, raised £23 million in its first month of operation.

Extremist anti-Ulez vigilantes boast online about tearing down the cameras, and the Met Police recorded 141 crimes relating to Ulez cameras per month between April and October this year. Other residents have taken to lawful protests near mobile camera vans, leading to clashes with security.

“Most of these security people are thugs, lots have got hoodies and masks, and they often don’t have their security industry badges displayed,” Howard Cox, Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor and a fuel pricing campaigner, said. “It’s disgusting what’s happening.”

Susan Hall, the Conservative mayoral candidate, said: “Sadiq Khan has serious questions to answer about what his Ulez enforcers have been doing. These hired goons are very intimidating for local residents, with many of them covering their faces and failing to display their badges. It is completely unacceptable and I will put a stop to it next year, by scrapping the unfair Ulez expansion tax on day one.”

The guards “must wear your licence where it can be seen at all times”, according to conditions set by the regulator, the Security Industry Authority. Photographs passed to The Times would suggest that the guards were not displaying their cards.

Transport for London said: “We have hired a small number of qualified security staff who are suitably licensed by the Security Industry Authority, due to ongoing criminal damage to Ulez cameras and vehicles. They are held to high standards of professionalism.”

It confirmed it was investigating Watts’s case, adding: “Any injury sustained by a member of the public while using or interacting with our services is a concern.”

The Security Industry Authority said: “We take our responsibility to protect the public very seriously. We want to know when people working in the private security industry break the law or do something that might bring the industry into disrepute.”

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UK: Children Given Lessons on How to Treat Stab Wounds Due to Increase in Knife Murders and Injuries



UK: Children in high knife-crime areas are being taught how to treat stab wounds.  The program follows the shocking deaths of two teenagers who were stabbed to death in separate attacks, and an incident with a knife gang that entered school grounds and threatened pupils. There have already been 10 teenagers knifed to death since the start of 2019.  Prime Minister Theresa May has faced a backlash over her claim that there is no direct link with the reduction of police officers.  She restricted police power to stop and search suspects in 2013 when she was the Home Secretary on grounds that the policing technique was disproportionately targeting minorities. The number of police officers in England and Wales has dropped by more than 20,000 since 2010, and levels of violent crime have risen markedly in recent years. The UK and the EU have withheld information about migrant crime rates.

Children in high knife-crime areas are being taught how to deliver
first aid to stab victims, details of the programme emerging less than a
week after two teenagers were stabbed to death in separate attacks and a
knife gang entered school grounds and threatened pupils.

Run by charity Street Doctors, school children are taught how to
deliver first aid to stabbing victims through role play, and learn how
to stem blood loss, reports The Times.

The scheme operates in 16 cities across the country including London,
where less than 15 per cent of the population live but one-third of all
stabbings occur, according to NHS data.

The charity said that they know of 14 cases where their training has
helped in an emergency situation faced by youths, in one case in a
shooting and seven after a stabbing.

Carl Ward, chief executive of City Learning Trust in Stoke,
Staffordshire, told the newspaper that Street Doctors gives training at
its secondary schools, explaining, “They come and show you what a knife
can do to the body — it makes it very real.

“Children are usually in quite a lot of shock. Stoke on Trent is a
tough area with lots of gang problems. We’ve had for a few years to prep
the children up so they know what they’re getting into.

“Every child has lessons from StreetDoctors, including how to respond to a stabbing.”

On Monday morning, police were called to Runshaw College in Leyland,
Lancashire, after administrators were informed a gang of youths
travelling from Manchester, 30 miles away, were intending to enter
school grounds bearing knives in what was suspected to have been a
“targetted attack.”

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Additional sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6775659/School-pupils-lessons-treating-stab-wounds.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/672735/half-of-British-rape-suspects-are-foreign

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201604201038319963-crimes-migrants-uk/




UK: Police Report Says an Average of 15 Acid Attacks Perpetrated Per Week, Mostly in London

Police statistics show a total of 2,602 reported acid attacks from January 2015 to May 2018, which averages out to 15 per week. Cities with high immigrant rates have the highest number of attacks. Nearly 75% of them have been carried out in London, a city praised by the Left for multiculturalism and tolerance. The data shows a surge in children both perpetrating and being victimized by these attacks. -GEG

New police figures reveal that the U.K. is averaging at least 15 barbaric acid attacks a week.

The figures, first reported by The Mirror, show a total of 2,602 reported attacks from January 2015 to May of this year, averaging out to 15 per week. In comparison, there were only 100 total attacks reported from 2007 to 2011.

Stunningly, nearly 75% of such attacks have been carried out in London, a city often praised by the Left for its multiculturalism and tolerance.

And the figures actually reflect a sunnier outlook than the reality of the situation, since four police forces neglected to provide data regarding acid attacks when it was requested of them. Still, Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTI) found the U.K. to have one of the highest rates of attacks per capita in the world.

To make matters worse, the data shows a surge in children perpetrating and being victimized by acid attacks. “[O]ne victim was just two years old when they were doused in acid, while in Cumbria two girls, aged four and five, were targeted by a six and nine-year-old,” notes The Sun.

The phenomenon of throwing acid in an unsuspecting person’s face is common in some Muslim-majority counties, typically victimizing women. But with the attacks in the U.K., according to ASTI, a majority of the victims are men.

Curiously, though, it’s common for victims to be unwilling to press charges. “Since 2014 about 74% of investigations have been wound down due to problems with identifying perpetrators, or victims being unwilling to press charges,” the BBC reported.

As previously noted by The Daily Wire, figures provided by Metro show a correlation between cities with high immigrant rates and spiked attacks.

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London’s Metropolitan Police Failed to Record 100,000 Crimes, Including Rape

A police watchdog group reported that police officers in London often failed to record crimes, including domestic abuse and violence when they occurred alongside other crimes.  Almost one in ten sexual offense crimes, including rape, were not recorded.  They also neglected to record some low-level crimes.  More than half of people in the UK have lost confidence in the police.  Meanwhile, hate crimes are rigorously investigated, and a George Soros-linked NGO is working with police to fund enforcement for hate crime laws.

London’s Metropolitan Police fails to record over 94,500 reported crimes each year, representing 10.5 percent of all reported crimes, according to estimates by the policing and fire services watchdog.

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found that officers were failing to accurately record crimes including domestic abuse and violence when they occurred alongside other crimes as well as some public order offences and low-level crimes.

Last year, the Met recorded over 800,000 crimes and the HMICFRS believes these near-100,000 annual missed recordings occur because officers did not “recognise” when crimes were committed or did not “understand” the need to record multiple offences when reported during police investigations.

“We believe that instances of crimes not being recorded generally occur when staff and officers do not recognise that a crime has been committed, or do not fully understand the need to record multiple offences disclosed during investigations,” the inspectorate found.

When auditing 1,369 reports of crime from the period 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017, the HMICFRS found that 271 were related to domestic abuse and of these the force has recorded 230 – the remaining 41 not recorded “were mostly offences involving violence, such as actual bodily harm and common assault”.

By their estimates, the force failed to record over 28,100 violent crimes. Almost one in ten sexual offence crimes, including rape, were not recorded and of the 118 audited rape reports, 20 were not accurately recorded by London police.

These findings come after a shock poll revealed that more than half of people in the UK have lost confidence in the police with 57 percent saying they think that the control of whole areas has been surrendered by officers to criminals.

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Top Surgeon Says London Hospitals Look Like a War Zone Due to Gun and Knife Attacks


Dr. Mark Griffiths, a leading surgeon in London, says that the hospitals look like “war zones due to gun and knife crime epidemic.” He said, “We used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid to late teens, and children in school uniforms are being admitted under our care with knife and gun wounds.” There have been 50 people killed in London so far this year – 50. That’s an epidemic.

London’s hospitals ‘look like war zones due to gun and knife crime epidemic’

London’s knife and gun crime epidemic is so bad that hospitals are starting to look like war zones, according to a top surgeon.

Dr Mark Griffiths, lead surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London, said: “Some of my military colleagues have described their practice here as similar to being at (Camp) Bastion.

“We used to look after people in their twenties. Now people are often in their mid to late teens, and children in school uniforms are being admitted under our care with knife and gun wounds.

“Whereas a young boy being stabbed five or six years ago would have been a horror story, now it’s normal. People expect to see people being killed on a daily basis. Members of the public who are not involved in gangs or violence let this pass without comment and you get the society you deserve if you ignore violence.”

There have been 50 people killed in London so far this year – 50. That’s an epidemic. Law and order has been neglected and done on the cheap for too long.

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More Murders Now in London Than in New York City

Historically, London has had a murder rate than ranges from half to one-twentieth of the number of people killed in New York City since the 1800’s. Now it surpasses NYC, not just for murders, but rape as well. In fact, rape in London is triple the number in NYC. These increases are due in large part to the fact that Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan ordered police to stop searching for weapons on non-white suspects.  Also, police are unwilling to confront suspects knowing they will not be supported by their departments.  Cressida Dick, who heads up the London police force, has refused to acknowledge that Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs are a problem.  She says they have been in Britain for “centuries and centuries and centuries.” The rise in crime and violence, she says, is caused by social media – and the solution, of course, is more control over the Internet and more money for a larger police force. Classic collectivism. -GEG

London has overtaken New York City for number of murders for the first time in over 200 years under the mayoralty of Labour’s Sadiq Khan.

Britain’s multicultural capital edged ahead of the American city — once so notorious for its high crime rates that it was chosen as the setting for Charles Bronson’s Death Wish –– in February, The Times reports.

London saw 15 killings to New York’s 14 over the course of the month, and appears to have outstripped ‘Gotham’ yet again in March, with 22 killings to 21.

Historically, London has had a murder rate per person between half and one-twentieth of New York’s since 1800, according to FBI data and studies by University of California researcher Eric Monkkonen.

The change is partly a consequence of Mayor Khan’s campaign against using stop and search on ethnic minorities, with London police chief Cressida Dick admitting that constables have become “fearful” of confronting suspects as they “might get into trouble or might not be supported if they had a complaint”.

Figures released last year showed London was already the more dangerous of the two cities for almost every other category of violent and sexual crime, with Londoners six times more likely to be burgled than New Yorkers, three times more likely to be raped, and one and a half times more likely to be robbed.

The numbers fly in the face of Mayor Khan’s claim that London is “the safest global city in the world, and one of the safest cities in the world” in 2017.

This assertion already appeared highly questionable after a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks and an admission that hundreds of Islamic State volunteers have returned to the capital and are not being monitored, alongside disturbing developments such as the city being crowned “acid attack capital of the world” following an epidemic of assaults using corrosive substances.

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London Bucket Bomber Was Detained by Police 2 Weeks Ago


London: A bucket nail bomb that went off on a Tube train on Friday could have killed dozens but it only injured 30 people because it failed to fully detonate. ISIS claimed credit for the attack.  An 18-year old foreign-born foster child was arrested about two weeks prior to the bombing, but police released him. Now, he is the prime suspect in the attack.  President Trump was criticized for sending out tweets calling the bomber a “loser terrorist” who was in the sights of Scotland Yard. Trump also tweeted that the internet is the main recruitment tool for terrorist and must be cut off. [Trump may be right about the mistake of releasing the bomber from custody but – in our view – he is not even close to being right about the need for more censorship of the Internet.] -GEG

Yesterday President Trump took heat from U.S. and international media for calling the attempted London bomber a terrorist, identifying the “loser” and saying he was “in the sights” of law enforcement:

The media went bonzo: […] “ Mr. Trump’s assertion that the assailants had been known to Scotland Yard angered Prime Minister Theresa May, who said it was not helpful for anyone to speculate while an investigation was underway.” (New York Times)

Well, today:

(Via Daily Mail) The suspected Parsons Green bomber was a ‘problematic foster child’ who was allegedly arrested two weeks ago near to where the attack took place before being freed.

Police are searching a house in Sunbury-on-Thames after the 18-year-old, who could have been an asylum seeker, was detained in the port of Dover earlier today while apparently attempting to leave the country.

The lilac-painted house raided by police in connection with the attack, which injured 30, is owned by a kind-hearted couple who were both appointed MBEs for fostering hundreds of children.

Penelope Jones, 71, and her husband Ronald, 88, have raised 268 foster children in the house over three decades and the last eight have been refugees.

Officers stormed the house on Cavendish Road at 2pm around six hours after apprehending the suspect in the departure lounge of the Port of Dover.

Around 60 people were evacuated from near the house, while unconfirmed reports suggested ‘explosives’ were found in the garden and ‘firearms’ seen under the floorboards.

Neighbour Carrie Hill, 38, said: ‘Police told me there was a bomb found in the garden and firearms hidden under the floorboards.’

There is no suggestion the Joneses had any knowledge of any alleged wrongdoing at the property and

Close friends of pensioners Penny and Ron Jones said the couple – who are widely respected in the local area – were at ‘their end’ with the teenager.

Serena Barber, 47, who has known the couple all her life and lives in a property backing on to theirs, said: ‘They have two boys at the moment, both are foreign. One is very quiet and polite, the other who is 18 is awful.

‘I know about two weeks ago he was arrested by police at Parsons Green, for what I don’t know and returned back to Penny and Ron. After that Penny said she was going to have to stop caring for him, she couldn’t handle him.’

The development comes as police revealed they are ‘keeping an open mind’ on whether there was more than one person responsible for the bombing.  (read more)

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London: New Trend in Violent Street Crime: Throwing Acid at Victims


Two unidentified teens were arrested in connection with five recent incidents of acid attacks by robbers on mopeds. Since 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks using corrosive substances in London.

A 16-year-old has been charged over a string of acid attacks in London, police have said.

The teenager was charged with 15 offences, including one count of possession of an item to discharge a noxious substance, three counts of robbery and one count of GBH with intent.

The five attacks took place in the north and east of the capital in the space of 90 minutes on Thursday night, leaving one victim with “life-changing” injuries.

A 15-year-old boy has been released on bail until a date in early August after he was arrested at an address in Stoke Newington in north London on Friday morning on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and robbery.

Also faced by the older teenager are four counts of attempted robbery, five counts of attempted GBH with intent and one count of handling stolen goods.

He has been remanded in custody and will appear before Stratford Youth Court on 17 July.

All five of the victims were riding mopeds at the time of the attacks and required hospital treatment after they were doused with the chemical.

Jabed Duzzahuru, a takeaway delivery driver, was among them and is said to have been permanently scarred by the attack on his way home from work, according to the food delivery firm.

The 32-year-old, who is president of a group which represents more than 2,500 delivery drivers from companies, including Deliveroo and UberEats, was making a food delivery order to a customer when the attackers struck.

Residents living in close vicinity to the incidents, which took place in Hackney, Shoreditch, Stoke Newington and Islington, said they were alarmed by the attacks and called for action to be taken to prevent them in future.

Since 2010, there have been more than 1,800 reports of attacks using corrosive substances in London, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The number of acid attacks in the capital have increased from 261 in 2015 to 458 last year.

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