Is Prevent Fit For Purpose?

[naomi24]

//Sir David Amess's killer was exited from the government's Prevent anti-terror programme too quickly and its handling of him was "sub-optimal", a review has said.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3jk229vkgo

 

//Prevent closed Southport killer case 'prematurely'//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rqxpg2ryvo

 

 

 Conservative former minister MP Mark Francois said: "We spend a fortune on Prevent, but it seems that ultimately, it doesn't do what it says on the tin."

 

In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, former Southend West Conservative MP Anna Firth, who became Sir David's successor, said his family and those of the Southport victims had been equally failed by Prevent.

[youngmafbog]

Prevent are primarily concerned with the "Far right".  It's politically motivated like most "civil service" things.

We need a Musk.

[Canary42]

/// We need a Musk.///

An unelected billionaire to run the country - geez, how wonderful.

[jackthehat]

Not in its' current incarnation, it isn't.

It has one job to do.......and can't do it.

[Khandro]

We put too much faith in these agencies. In fairness, how can anyone really know what goes on in another's mind?

[Clone]

Spends too much time on so-called far-right extremists whilst ignoring Islamic extremists.

Hope not Hate is just the same.

[david small]

In one word....No.

[davebro3]

I don't know enough about it but it seems like an increasingly onerous job & there are bound to be failures.

[johnk]

As there are no figures for death prevented how can you make a judgement? Is every Prevent employee supposed to 100% accurate 100% of the time.

[newmodarmy]

A big problem is that there are so many people that need to be looked at that they need to use a light-touch approach too often. This, together with fears of human rights claims if they restrict movements, means they too often give those they like at the benefit of the doubt.  And here is no way we could monitor closely 24 hours a day all those we should be monitoring unless we recruit many thousands  of extra police officers.

A starting point is to refuse entry to far more asylum seekers. We've just seen another example in Munich of the threat some pose.

[newmodarmy]

^ like at should say look at

 

[fender62]

whne they say far right or little englanders, it's a deflection from the elephant in the room and that is islam, it will be the so called far right who will save the country, and the only people who will fight to save the country, while the left and woke cower in corner forming committes and protest marches.

[douglas9401]

Yup. You can't reason with the unwashed heathen and his band of merry men but until 'we' grow a collective pair and reclaim the country from the growing cancer that's consuming it we're reduced to typing furiously on here and voting in an endless stream of cowards and charlatans.

[Khandro]

^^ in other words; vote Reform UK

[douglas9401]

Thanks for the laugh, Khandro.

[Khandro]

Douglas //Thanks for the laugh, Khandro.//

Don't tell me you'd vote for anything else !