Tackling terror?

I HAVE just retired from a large metropolitan police force with a real issue with radical extremists, covering an area that has produced several home-grown bombers.

You might think there would be a robust, common sense approach around Prevent training, which aims to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

However, the training that the officers received suggested the risk to our nation’s security was far greater from animal rights extremists and the Far Right, while Islamic terrorism was rarely mentioned.

The final capitulation to the PC brigade was an online session that featured a photo of a white man as a generic jihadi. A Muslim officer commented that the training was ‘a patronising joke’.

So if the police training doesn’t reflect the true picture in society, what chance has Prevent got of working effectively?

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