Every day, the public make more than 3,600 contributions to the fight against terror, according to Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officer.
Writing in his blog, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley says cooperation between the public and the police is the country’s "greatest advantage" in combating terror and is “more important than ever before”.
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"I know you want me to reassure you. I am afraid I cannot do that entirely," he said.
The latest warnings produced outrage from tabloid columnist Katie Hopkins, who railed against the Metropolitan Police commissioner on her LBC radio show. “Frankly, I do live in fear. I do live in hate,” she told listeners.
Azi Ahmed in The Independent offered a different perspective on Rowley’s advice that people should tell the police if they think someone is being radicalised.
She writes about "Jihadi Joannas" - Muslim girls who are "evolving into women, having a sense of themselves, their femininity, their hormones ready to explode - and yet they couldn’t express any of this".
She adds that the three British schoolgirls who disappeared from their London homes last year to join Isis in Syria, and who are now feared dead, did not go to the Middle East to fight - “they went there for love... They’re just confused teenagers.”
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