David Cameron said police's tactics for UK riots were wrong

British Prime Minister, David Cameron said police had admitted to him that they got their riot tactics wrong, as as he announced a raft of measures to help homeowners and businesses.

The riots were "criminality pure and simple" however there were "far too few police" on the streets, he said, during an emergency recall of Parliament.

He announced a crackdown on facemasks and a review of curfews. More than 1,200 arrests have been made since the unrest began on Saturday and more will follow.

Mr Cameron earlier chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra to discuss the violence with cabinet ministers. He's told MPs that it had become clear that there had been problems in the initial police response to the disorder.
"There were simply far too few police were deployed on to our streets and the tactics they were using weren't working,"

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