Britain seeking to learn lessons from Paris events
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BRITAIN will seek to learn from last week’s attacks in Paris as part of future security exercises, the government said after Prime Minister David Cameron met security and intelligence chiefs yesterday.
The meeting discussed what Britain would do in the event of a “multiple firearms attack in more than one location,” as happened both in Paris last week and in the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, Cameron’s spokesman said.
“The relevant police and agencies regularly carry out exercises to test their response to a terror attack, including scenarios similar to the incidents in Paris,” the government said in a statement after the meeting.
“The meeting agreed that for future exercises, the relevant agencies should identify whether there are any further specific elements of the Paris attack that should be built into the exercise scenarios,” it added. Britain’s terrorism threat level is currently at severe, the second-highest of five, meaning an attack is thought to be highly likely.
Cameron was among the world leaders who attended a unity march along with more than 1.5 million people in Paris on Sunday in the wake of the attacks in and around the French capital in which 17 people and three gunmen were killed.
“One of the things that you want to do is to see whether there are any specific lessons that can be learnt from what we have sadly witnessed in Paris,” the prime minister’s official spokesman said.
Cameron restated his desire for new legislation to toughen powers to monitor Internet and mobile phone calls. But the proposals, dubbed a “Snooper’s Charter” by critics, have been blocked by his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.
Meanwhile, Bernard Hogan-Howe, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police, said yesterday: “The MPS has worked with the intelligence services to foil several plots in London over the last few months, and I have said repeatedly that the drumbeat of terror has intensified.”
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