Warning that police grasp of far-right threat is decade out of date

Author says Ben Hannam’s conviction suggests more extremists are serving and says scrutiny ‘isn’t fit for purpose’ The police’s understanding of the far-right extremist threat in the UK is a decade behind the curve because it is based primarily on an understanding of yesterday’s organisations, according to a leading expert.The warning from Matthew Collins, the author of a book on National Action, came after a 22-year-old became the first serving British police officer to be convicted of a terrorism offence, after he was found guilty of belonging to the banned neo-Nazi group on Thursday. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/02/warning-that-police-grasp-of-far-right-threat-is-decade-out-of-date #uk_news #the_far_right #police