Met boss reveals one terror suspect is arrested EVERY DAY in the capital
THE POLICE are dealing with “very high volumes” of potential terrorists, with one arrested ‘every day,’ the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has revealed.
Met Commissioner: We make daily arrests in relation to terrorism
Cressida Dick, who assumed office in April, said that a suspected terrorist is arrested every day.
However, the Met commissioner admitted that the huge scale of terror suspects makes the job of the police extremely difficult.
Speaking to the BBC, she said: “As you are aware since 2013 we have foiled I think 18 plots, certainly in the high teens.
“We arrest about a person a day and have been for some time, in relation to counter-terrorism.
“We have very good intelligence and we are frequently able to disrupt or indeed provide highly effective protection when we think an event or a particular place is at risk.
“But I understand people will be concerned and all I can say is we will be doing everything in our power and we will be stepping up a gear.”
Speaking later on Sky News, the Met commissioner admitted that the scale of potential terrorists was huge.
She added: “I would just remind people that we do have literally thousands, in fact tens of thousands of people who we would regard as subjects of interest.
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We arrest about a person a day and have been for some time, in relation to counter-terrorism.
“Actually when we have fantastic powers of intelligence operations we will know something about a lot of people.
“Our challenge is toward out, first of all, to find out about the people we don’t know about, and then secondly to find out what risk those that we do know about, pose at any one time.
“It’s a challenging task because we are dealing with very high volumes.”
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