Identifying most dangerous terrorists like finding ‘needle in haystack’, Sir Mark Rowley warns
The UK has tens of thousands of potential terrorists and identifying the ones who are likely to carry out an attack is like finding a “needle in a haystack”, Sir Mark Rowley has warned.
While the most dangerous extremists in Britain are closely monitored by the police and security services, there are many more who share the ideology but lack the “spark to act”.
The Met Commissioner said the trigger was often something that happened in their personal life, making it extremely difficult for the authorities to keep on top of.
The Commissioner cites 6400 referrals to the UK’s Prevent “anti-terror” Program.
Prevent was found under a recent review to have falsely focused on the so-called “right-wing” terror threat while ignoring the very real Muslim terror threat because they were afraid of offending the Islamists.
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