UK: Muslim communities should do more against terrorism, warns chief constable

UK: Muslim communities should do more against terrorism, warns chief constable



Sir Norman Bettison, the head of West Yorkshire Police, said that Britain is facing another 20 years of having to deal with the threat from radicalised home-grown extremists.


He said there was a fine line between winning the support of the Muslim community and alienating it, but he believed that Muslims needed to do more to tip off police.

 
"I'm looking for the community to work much more closely with the police in identifying young people that they have concerns about in terms of the people that they're mixing with, the sort of websites that they're going on to and the material that they're reading," Sir Norman said.


"That information can only come from the community itself."


Sir Norman, who is the Association of Chief Police Officer's spokesman on preventing violent extremism, compared radicalisation to a disease and added: "I think it's a generation of treatment to prevent the infection spreading and I think that will take us probably 20 years."


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Sir Norman's comments came on a BBC documentary about "Generation Jihad".


He told the programme: "I think we have to be alert and conscious of the risk that's ever present and prepared to interdict and prepared to share information.


"So the community as a whole could do more and the Muslim community is a part of that."


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Source: Daily Telegraph

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