ABSTRACT
The London 2012 Olympic Games came and went without major incident. There were no mass protests, no terrorist attacks, and the feared robberies of tourists by predatory local youths never materialized. There was no Newham post-Olympic debriefing nor were there any Newham officers invited to the de-brief meetings held in Central London in the Autumn of 2012. The MPS took comfort wherever it could in the post-Olympic milieu. Despite recorded crime levels continuously falling since the mid-1990s, the relationship between the Conservative Party and the police. As a result of the post-Olympic assessment, Newham police officers were instructed not to travel to and from work on public transport while wearing uniform, and transport routes frequented by police personnel received extra uniformed police attention. Post- Olympics, the Mayor of Newham and many Newham councillors continued publicly to refuse to recognize officially the existence of gangs in the borough.
