Met commanders warn ‘not all risks will have been mitigated’ despite organisers’ insistence that new safety measures are in place

Some 7,000 Metropolitan Police officers and staff will be trying to keep up to two million revellers safe as they descend on the packed streets of West London this weekend.

Met commanders warn ‘not all risks will have been mitigated’ despite organisers’ insistence that new safety measures are in place

Organisers say 7,000 officers and staff will be on site today and tomorrow with live facial recognition cameras and screening arches to detect weapons at the busiest entry points.

Even the harshest critics of the Metropolitan Police admit the force has its work cut out with the Notting Hill Carnival.