38 arrests made during Notting Hill Carnival

Despite the damp outlook, up to a million people are expected to visit Notting Hill over the bank holiday weekend.

AFRIMA will identify with and participate at the 2015 London Notting Hill Carnival, LNHC, with a team of AFRIMA officials to showcase the 23.9 carat gold-plated award trophy and give out some of the awards collaterals which include branded T-shirts, literature and other memorabilia as well as propagate and communicate the objectives and vision of AFRIMA to an worldwide audience.

“On Monday it’s looking like quite a wet morning with fairly persistent rain and then maybe turning drier throughout the afternoon”.

By 9pm on the street festival’s first day a year ago there had been 95 arrests.

The majority of arrests involved drugs, violence and weapon offences, but also included assault on police and public order offences. “It’s a fantastic party atmosphere”.

The Notting Hill Carnival started in the 1960s, when the area had a large population of immigrants recently arrived from the Caribbean and was notorious for its slums – a far cry from today when it is one of London’s most expensive places to live.

Scotland Yard said that a 15-year old boy had been charged with being in possession of a knife at the Carnival Panorama event in Pleasance Park, North Kensington, on Saturday.

He was bailed to appear at Hammersmith Youth Court on September 14 and was prohibited from attending the carnival today and tomorrow.

It is not illegal to possess but cannot be sold to those under 18 if they are believed to be likely to inhale it, according to the Government’s drug education website Frank.

Earlier this week, dozens of arrests were made in dawn raids throughout the capital in an attempt to prevent potential troublemakers from heading to the event.

Police said they had seized 350 canisters of nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas and long used as an anaesthetic, which has been the centre of controversy in Britain as its popularity has grown as a party drug.

No arrests were made and the matter has been referred to Westminster City Council for street trading offences.