UK unready for terror attacks outside London
The British media on Monday highlighted fresh concerns as to whether the UK has sufficient resources to respond to an act of terrorism outside of London.
This appears to have pushed the Home Office to form new units to deal with terrorist threats in the country.
“Four dedicated regional armed police units” could be set up to respond to a terrorist-related incident in other areas of Britain, according to The Telegraph.
The Home Secretary Theresa May has reportedly been in meetings with senior counter terror officers, planning to have units ready 24 hours a day.
This comes as the British media said on Sunday that London is among other major European cities that have been forewarned about the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack on or before New Year's Eve.
The terror alert originally handed to Austrian police on Saturday from a "friendly" intelligence service says terrorist sleeper cells are planning to hit Western targets, according to the British daily, the Express.
Other reports said there are also proposals to have trained officers ready to be seconded from other duties in the event of a terror-related incident.
Concerns regarding the preparedness of the UK outside London have also come from inside the police. One source told the Observer: “Ask a regional force how long it would take them to respond to a terror attack and watch them squirm.”
The terrorist threat level to the UK remains ‘severe’ and security services reportedly thwarted at least seven terrorist attempts to attack the UK in 2015, wrote the Independent.
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