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Greater social inclusion vital to fi ght
extremism, says counter-terror chief
Vikram Dodd
Police and crime correspondentBritain’s most senior counter -terrorism
offi cer has said that boosts to the police
and security services are no longer
enough to win the fi ght against violent
extremism and that the country must
improve community cohesion, social
mobility and education instead.
In his fi rst big interview since taking
up his post last year , the assistantcommissioner Neil Basu told the
Guardian that up to 80% of those
who wanted to attack the UK were
British-born or raised, which strongly
indicated that domestic social issues
were among the root causes.
Those grievances, when held by
people who were “malleable” to
terrorist recruitment, were highly
dangerous, he said. He called for
sociologists and criminologists to take
a lead in helping police.
Highly regarded in Whitehall, Basuis seen as a potential next leader of the
Met. His comments mark a signifi cant
break in tone, if not strategy, about
how to combat terrorism and stop it
becoming a multigenerational struggle
that harms the country’s social fabric.
In a wide-ranging interview, Basu
also warned that a no-deal Brexit would
inevitably jeopardise the security of
the UK because key information-shar-
ing and extradition procedures would
be lost. And he said that if an applicant
to join the police had used a term like“piccaninnies” or said that women in
the burqa resembled “letterboxes”, as
Boris Johnson has done, they would
not be recruited.
Basu said Prevent, which he views
as the most important plank of the
UK’s counter-terrorism strategy, had
been “badly handled”, but that its
work was vital and it had to become
more transparent and community
led, and take on its critics. He also said
extreme rightwing terrorism
was rising and feared that
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