The current approach to policing protests involving certain groups, such as the perceived two-tiered handling of Islamist extremist symbols, is problematic and damaging to social cohesion.

“but if they're waving some flag that is an ISIS flag or you know some the the u an emblem of a prescribed organization the directive given to the police is not to move in immediately and make that arrest, but to watch it on CCTV and then have a discussion or a debate and then go and move do with it ”