THE main risk of terrorism In Warrington is from the extreme “Right Wing”, according to a report to be considered by the borough council’s cabinet next week.
Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism describes those involved in extreme right-wing activity who use terrorist violence to further their ideology, the report states.
These ideologies can be broadly characterised as Cultural Nationalism, White Nationalism and White Supremacism.
“Individuals and groups may subscribe to ideological trends and ideas from more than one category. Unlike Islamist terrorist groups, extreme right-wing terrorists are not typically organised into formal groups with leadership hierarchies and territorial ambitions, but informal online communities which facilitate international links.”
The report, to be presented by Cllr Sue Emery, cabinet member for Poverty, Inequality and Protection, is the annual report of Prevent, a key part of the national counter terrorism strategy.
Its aims are to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, to stop terrorist attacks, to strengthen the town’s protection against a terrorist attack and prepare: to mitigate the impact of a terrorist attack.
They also extend to supporting the rehabilitation and disengagement of those already involved in terrorism.
The ‘Prevent duty’ requires specified authorities such as education, health, local authorities, police and criminal justice agencies (prisons and probation) to help prevent the risk of people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
It sits alongside long-established safeguarding duties on professionals to protect people from a range of other harms, such as substance abuse, involvement in gangs, and physical and sexual exploitation. The duty helps to ensure that people who are susceptible to radicalisation are supported.
The objectives of Prevent are to:
* Tackle the ideological causes of terrorism
* Intervene early to support people susceptible to radicalisation
* Enable people who have already engaged in terrorism to disengage and rehabilitate
Prevent intervenes early by identifying people who are susceptible to radicalisation and providing support to those suitable for intervention.
The group is overseen by the Channel Panel, chaired by the local authority and attended by multi-agency partners.
Unlike some areas, identified as “priority areas” Warrington receives no funding to fulfil its statutory to oversee Prevent and Channel locally so the work is carried out by counil officers alongside their additional duties.
Counter-terrorism police share information with the Prevent Partnership Panel.
The council’s cabinet will be asked to note the Prevent report.
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Clearly the author knows nothing about terrorism, facism, communism etc etc
Right wing terrorism? So basically most of the British population are terrorists then? Has anyone who has openly protested about all the illegal young men put up in free hotels and who have voiced their worries about the rise of Islam in our country actually gone round bombing people, violently stabbing people, thrown acid in people’s faces, chased people with machetes, think that women are second class so raping them and molesting them is okay? No i thought not. I am proud then to say i am “right wing”. Terrorist i aint, patriotic i am. Clearly this person is just another traitor to our once great country.
There they go again, Labour makes alienating the ordinary man in the street seem effortless…