'Biggest terror threat to UK from home-based terrorists'

August 02, 2016 19:45

The biggest terror threat to Britain emanates from "home-based terrorists", UK's senior-most counter-terrorism police chief said today and advised people to run away as fast as possible if they get caught up in a terrorist attack.

Scotland Yard assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said that the country faces the most serious terror threat from "home-based terrorists" in the UK.

"Most of them aren't people who have traveled to Syria, but they are being inspired, trying to pick up weapons, to plan an attack here. That's what we've been wrestling with most of all. We've had a steady flow of people thinking about that sort of attack," Rowley said.

He confirmed that Britain's largest police force had hundreds of investigations ongoing, ranging from extremists right on the periphery through to small numbers of the highest risk operations.

The Metropolitan Police officer also advised people to run away in case of a terror attack.

"So let's be really clear '" run as far away as possible and when you can't run any further, hide, and then tell '" call the police because we've got the people, the resources, the firearms to deal with it. It's very straightforward," Rowley told 'Evening Standard' newspaper.

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