Seven people remain in hospital following major incident

As part of the ongoing investigation, detectives have also been able to identify more people who were injured, with 79 in total.

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00:00While investigations into exactly what led up to the events on Monday remain ongoing,

00:06the head of the Metropolitan Police said forces will more often have to release personal details about suspects earlier

00:12after Merseyside Police confirmed the ethnicity of the suspects in the Liverpool incident within hours.

00:18Seven people remain in hospital in a stable condition following the incident on Water Street on Monday.

00:24As part of the ongoing investigation, detectives have also been able to identify more people

00:29who were injured, with 79 in total who the force are now speaking with.

00:35Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley was asked if Merseyside Police were right to release the ethnicity of the suspects.

00:42Sir Mark told BBC Radio 4's Today programme,

00:45I'm not going to criticise another police chief who makes your judgement in a really difficult, complex situation.

00:52It comes after the force confirmed they'd arrested a 53-year-old white British man from the Liverpool area

00:56around two hours after the incident that left dozens of people hurt.

01:01Merseyside Police was criticised in the wake of the Southport murders last summer

01:05for not releasing more information after false rumours were started online

01:10that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker.

01:13In March, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy told MPs

01:16she wanted to dispel disinformation in the immediate aftermath of the Southport murders

01:21by releasing information about attacker Axel Rudicabana's religion

01:25because he came from a Christian family, but was told not to by local Crown prosecutors.

01:31Police did disclose the suspect was a 17-year-old male from Banks in Lancashire

01:35who was born in Cardiff.

01:37Widespread rioting followed the murders,

01:39with some disorder targeting mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers.