The future of policing

Counter-terrorism

John Parkinson OBEChair of CENTRIC Steering Group & Senior Research Fellow

Andrew StaniforthDetective Inspector, Head of West Yorkshire for Innovation & CENTRIC Senior Research Fellow

9 July 2014

Facilitators

John Parkinson

Andy Stanford

Edwin Meese III

Greg Saathoff

Mark Holder

Threats to the UK…….

Terrorist threats to

the UK

Al Qaeda (AQ)

Northern Ireland Related Terrorism (NIRT)

Cyber Terrorism (CyT)

Extreme Right-Wing

(XRW)

Threats to the UK from Al Qaeda…

Terrorist groups following the Al Qaeda ideology;

but which have their own identity and regional agenda.

Al Qaeda leadership;

and their immediate associates, located mainly on the Pakistan and

Afghanistan border.

‘Self-starting’ networks;

or even lone individuals, motivated by an ideology similar to that of Al

Qaeda but with no connection to the organization.

Terrorist groups affiliated to Al Qaeda;

particularly those based in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq

and Yemen

The threat to the United Kingdom from Al Qaeda

Cyber threats……

Terrorist use of the internet

The Internet has changed the very nature of terrorism

The Internet is well suited to the nature of terrorism and the psyche of the terrorist.

Online radicalisation

The future of counter-terrorism policing