The chief of Britain’s counter terror unit has warned of the rising threat of an attack on UK soil sparked by the conflict in the Middle East. Head of counter terror policing Matt Jukes issued the warning as he said the world was facing “a moment of radicalisation”.He described a picture where the world is as “dangerous and unstable” as it has been in his three years at the helm. He warned that the main threat was from a “low sophistication, lone actor” attempting a terror attack. He gave an update on the terror threat during a review of the counter terror unit’s operation during 2023.
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00:00 In the case of, for example, online referrals
00:03 of objectionable material, we've seen 3,000 reports
00:07 from the public.
00:08 About 700 of those look to be UK-linked and potentially
00:12 breaches of terrorism legislation.
00:14 That represents about a sevenfold increase
00:18 on the same period the previous year.
00:20 So these are very significant shifts in the volume.
00:24 Early days, really, to understand
00:26 what they mean in each case.
00:27 And we're obviously working hard to get to that picture
00:30 of what the threat is behind any of this information.
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