Prevent - Stopping People Becoming Terrorists or Supporting Terrorism Detective Chief Superintendent Alan Lyon National Coordinator Prevent

CONTEST and UK CT Threat Picture CONTEST Strategy Objective "To reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence." Pursue - To stop terrorist attacks by detecting, prosecuting and otherwise disrupting those who plot to carry out attacks against the UK or its interests overseas. Protect - To strengthen protection against a terrorist attack in the UK or against its interests overseas and so reduce their vulnerability. Prepare - to mitigate the impact of a terrorist attack where that attack cannot be stopped. This includes work to bring a terrorist attack to an end and to increase the UK's resilience. Prevent – Stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Current UK threat Level: SEVERE – 'An attack is highly likely' The UK remains a top strategic target Vulnerability: Critical National Infrastructure Crowded Places, Transport networks and Iconic sites. Arguably the most diverse threat the UK ever faced; Syria, East Africa, AFPAK, Cyber, Domestic, XRW

Prevent Prevent Aims & Objectives Respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat we face from those who promote it; Prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support; and Work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation which we need to address.

The Role of Police in Prevent Safeguarding Working with partners to identify the vulnerable Using police strengths & warranted powers in Prevent tactics: Prevention, disruption – core policing business. Coordinating and collaborating with partners. Supporting Pursue investigations Prevent Case Management Co-ordinate Channel

Legal Driver "Prosecute, Disrupt and Deter extremists" 2015 Prevent Statutory Duty Pragmatic Driver UK public report their concerns to the police, and partners seek police advice & support PCM developed Coordinated, national, end-to-end process by which all Prevent referrals (individuals, ideologies and institutions) are managed. Enabling Police to manage the volume of referrals and measure the impact of interventions Managing Prevent Cases De-conflict cases with MI5 Information gathering Case management Coordinating partners Intervention delivery Disruption Disruptive arrests, premises closures, use of legislative powers against subjects or, more often, against individuals that influence a Prevent referred individual. Supportive using partners to assist an individual through education, employment, mental health and CHANNEL. Messaging targeted Prevent messaging to individuals or locations, for example a home or school visit. Community Police defer to a key community contact such as faith leader, to provide mentoring or guidance. INTERVENTIONS SafeguardingMitigating CT risk

The Prevent / Ports Overlap Change in profile of those travelling to join Daesh: Initially young men travelling to Syria to fight Then young women such as the Bethnal Green schoolgirls Now whole families are travelling to join "The Caliphate" This issue can only be addressed collaboratively by Prevent, Ports Policing and partners in the port environment. Once at port the skills and expertise of Ports Officers are key.

General Challenges for Prevent Growing threat of online radicalisation Identifying and engaging credible voices to counter the extremist narrative. Perception of CVE strategies in the community Gaining community trust Working in partnership across public sectors: Police, military, CT, education, health, prisons etc. Challenges around young people: Getting the language right Use of technology and social media Lack of critical thinking Challenging authority Vulnerable for a range of reasons

Challenges in the Port Environment Increase of referrals into Prevent (over 600 per month) Increase in numbers and diversity of people seeking to travel Busy ports with competing priorities Raising awareness of ports staff Airport operator funding tensions Pressure to "get it right" – Post incident scrutiny; costs, complaints, organisational reputation Industry reaction to delayed plane / train / ferry Challenge over manifest "blind spots" such as Lufthansa and most ferries Evolution of travel tactics / routes

Why Prevent? ‘There comes a point you have to stop pulling people out of the river, get upstream and find out why they’re falling in.’ Archbishop Desmond Tutu