Mr. Drew Harris:

I have heard that being levelled at senior management in the organisation. I have to respond in terms of the fact that this was a spontaneous incident. Obviously, we had and were aware of the threat of public order, but the scale of it, the speed with which the social media messaging and the misinformation spread, and the repeated lies that were put out there in terms of being fact, all added to the tension of the incident, as we are all aware. We were responding on a Thursday which had started out like any other normal day. We were always responding in terms of how the situation developed and getting the resources there. It would have been an infinitely easier operation if we had had some indication as to this happening, but there was no prior indication as to the scale of what emerged. There was an element of us responding and obtaining more resources to the point where we had sufficient resources. There was no failure, on any part, of those commanding the operation. They did a good job in protecting the scene and gathering sufficient resources to deal with the riot in front of them.