Tarique Ghaffur, a former Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard, and once Britain’s most senior Muslim police officer, has called for internment of Islamic terrorist suspects.
Against a backdrop of recent atrocities in London and Manchester, and the revelation that MI5 has identified 23,000 individuals as threats in recent years, 3,000 of which are currently believed to be a threat, Ghaffur told the Daily Mail newspaper that “We face an unprecedented terrorist threat in Britain – about 3,000 extremists are subjects of interest to MI5 and police, and about 500 plots are being monitored.
Add more than 400 jihadis who have returned from Syria and you realise the numbers are way too many for the security services and police to monitor. The atrocities of Manchester and Westminster have shown that ordinary surveillance, monitoring and tagging are not working.
The time has come to set up special centres to detain these 3,000 extremists.”
Former Senior UK Police Officer Calls For Internment Of Islamic Terror Suspects
Against a backdrop of recent atrocities in London and Manchester, and the revelation that MI5 has identified 23,000 individuals as threats in recent years, 3,000 of which are currently believed to be a threat, Ghaffur told the Daily Mail newspaper that “We face an unprecedented terrorist threat in Britain – about 3,000 extremists are subjects of interest to MI5 and police, and about 500 plots are being monitored.
Add more than 400 jihadis who have returned from Syria and you realise the numbers are way too many for the security services and police to monitor. The atrocities of Manchester and Westminster have shown that ordinary surveillance, monitoring and tagging are not working.
The time has come to set up special centres to detain these 3,000 extremists.”
Former Senior UK Police Officer Calls For Internment Of Islamic Terror Suspects
