Terrorism police's message to public

MEMBERS of the public are being reminded of their role prevention and protection as part of Counter Terrorism Awareness Week.

The national drive includes specialist officers and experts carrying out webchats via @PoliceChiefs on Twitter.

Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK CounterTerrorism Policing Network said: “I cannot overstate the importance of the role that the public plays in helping to protect the UK against the threat of terrorism.”

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“Since the threat level was raised to ‘severe’ last year, police activity has increased accordingly in terms of number of arrests and investigations we’re carrying out.”

Report suspicious activity on the Anti Terrorist Hotline 0800 789 321.