by Author | Dec 19, 2019 | News, Prevent
The proportion of right wing-related referrals into Prevent has reached its highest ever level, according to new Home Office statistics. The overall number of vulnerable people referred to and supported through the Prevent programme has fallen to its lowest level in...
by Author | Dec 5, 2019 | News, Prepare, Prevent, Protect, Pursue
Counter Terrorism Policing’s Senior National Coordinator has again called upon the public to play their part in the fight against terrorism, as the Home Office released their quarterly arrest statistics.The Home Office’s quarterly release of statistics relating to the...
by Author | Nov 13, 2019 | News, Prevent
Counter Terrorism Policing have teamed up with popular soap opera Hollyoaks to warn young people about the dangers of radicalisation. With Hollyoaks’ ground-breaking far-right radicalisation storyline coming to a dramatic climax on E4 on Friday 15 November, the...
by Author | Sep 9, 2019 | News, Prevent
The UK’s most senior counter terrorism officer has urged the new Independent Reviewer of Prevent to ignore the strategy’s ‘malign detractors’ and see the ‘amazing work’ being done to protect people vulnerable to radicalisation. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu’s...
by Author | Aug 13, 2019 | News, Prevent
The government announced yesterday that Lord Carlile has been appointed as the Independent Reviewer of the Prevent programme, which safeguards vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. Prevent is one of the four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism...
by Author | Aug 7, 2019 | News, Prevent
The Prevent programme is the UK’s ‘best chance’ of reducing the threat from terrorism, says the national head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu. Prevent aims to safeguard and support those most at risk of radicalisation through early...
by Author | Jun 10, 2019 | News, Prevent
Counter Terrorism Policing is calling on business leaders to play a greater role in promoting Prevent in order to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. Only one percent of referrals to the scheme that seeks to support individuals before they become...
by Author | Feb 5, 2019 | News, Prevent
Chief Constable Simon Cole of Leicestershire Police spoke to the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) around the myths and realities of the Prevent programme. The police have a long history of working to prevent vulnerable people from being drawn into...
by Author | Dec 13, 2018 | News, Prevent
New Home Office statistics show a 20 percent increase in the number of people referred to and supported through the Prevent programme – with extreme right wing concerns up by over a third. Figures released today cover the year ending March 2018, a period likely to be...
by Author1 | May 18, 2018 | News, Prepare, Prevent, Protect, Pursue
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon has been appointed as the new Senior National Coordinator (SNC) for Counter Terrorism Policing. DAC Haydon was appointed this week as the permanent successor to Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, who himself took over as...
