Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, November 2020

A witness at a residential address in E17 phoned 999 at 11.45pm on Wednesday 24 July 2019 to report that two men were fighting outside their house. Four police officers attended but decided no police action was necessary. A second witness phoned 999 at 12.05am to report the men had resumed fighting after the police left. Separately, six police officers in a police van driving on Blackhorse Lane were flagged down by a member of the public who reported two men fighting. These officers attended and found one of the men on the floor. He told them he had been drinking but was not drunk, that he had arthritis and was in a lot of pain. Bodyworn video (BWV) footage showed the officers helped him to his feet, then spent approximately ten minutes speaking to the other man during which time the first man complained of pain in his neck. …