One of Britain’s most senior police officers has leapt to the defence of the much-criticised Prevent programme set up to stop people being drawn into terrorism.
Commander Dean Haydon, head of counter-terrorism at the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), told the BBC that some of the criticism of the strategy has been based on ‘ignorance’.
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