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25 UK priority areas named in tackling terrorism

Prevent Strategy reveals funding will be made for the priority areas for project work on a grant basis

The new Prevent Strategy, launched by the Home Office, which aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, has named the 25 priority areas across the UK.

The report states that in future, simple demographics will not be used as the basis for prioritising Prevent work. A new prioritisation process will aggregate different information and policing indicators of terrorist activity to understand areas where Prevent work needs to be prioritised

For 2011/12, the priority areas in alphabetical order, are Barking and Dagenham, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Bradford, Brent, Camden, Derby, Ealing, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Leeds, Leicester, Lewisham, Luton, Manchester, Newham, Redbridge, Stoke on Trent, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and Westminster.

Funding will be made available by the Home Office to the 25 priority areas for project work on a grant basis and for activities which address specific local risks and are designed to establish specific Prevent benefits.

In the report, Home Secretary Theresa May said: "Intelligence indicates that a terrorist attack in our country is ‘highly likely’."

"Experience tells us that the threat comes not just from foreign nationals but also from terrorists born and bred in Britain."

Further information:
Home Office

 

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