Policing operation planned ahead of protest at RAF Fairford today (Saturday 7 March)

A policing operation has been put in place ahead of a planned protest at RAF Fairford today (Saturday 7 March).

We fully respect the fundamental democratic right of being able to protest and we have a long history of facilitating peaceful demonstrations.

While we will enable lawful peaceful protest, we must also balance peoples’ rights of freedom of expression and assembly, with those of the wider public to go about their lives without disruption. Should any criminality or disorder occur we will deal with this robustly.

Officers have been liaising with organisers of today’s event and specialist liaison officers will continue to engage with them throughout.

We are not expecting significant numbers however, we will be dynamic in our response, and we are confident we have sufficient resources in place should large numbers attend.