The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has claimed that the Met has a plan to deal with the ISIS fighters bride Shamima Begum.
Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick stated she didn’t know what the level of threat was posed from the former Bethnal Green schoolgirl. Ministers have deemed Begum a safety menace.
But she insisted police would be “prepared” for the challenge and took “hugely seriously” the risk that people returning from Syria and other jihadi conflicts could pose.
Dame Cressida said: “Whenever anybody who has been apparently or actually involved in or supporting terrorism overseas comes back to the UK we will always have a plan that is appropriate.”
She insisted that police will not be ending the use of the term “Islamist” to describe jihadi terrorism despite suggestions this week that the idea might be under consideration.
Her comments follow last week’s Court of Appeal ruling that Begum, who left London at the age of 15 with two classmates from Bethnal Green to join IS fighters in Syria, is allowed to return to Britain to challenge a Home Office decision to remove her British citizenship.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said that the Government will seek to overturn the ruling in the Supreme Court.
Dame Cressida also denied the suggestion she was “throwing her officers under the bus” by apologising for the distress caused to Team GB athlete Bianca Williams, 26, during a stop-and-search.
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