Far-right protests draining police resources, figures reveal

South Yorkshire police forced to spend almost £5m since start of 2012 on keeping peace at demonstrationsSouth Yorkshire police have spent nearly £5m on policing far-right protests since the beginning of 2012, figures have shown. Freedom of information requests by the Guardian have revealed that 99.5% of the force’s overall expenditure on protests from the beginning of 2012 to October this year went on policing demonstrations by far-right groups.Continue reading...