BRITAIN says it is training extra firearms police amid growing fears of a "Mumbai-style" terror attack.
"We are working to prepare for any terrorist incident including a Mumbai-style attack in the UK," said Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones.
The government is "training more police officers to respond to an armed attack and enhancing existing levels of firearms training," she added during a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in central London.
Government ministers were also involved in "very testing" training exercises to help them to respond to such an attack, Neville-Jones said.
In September, it was revealed that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by Pakistan-based extremists.
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It dosent help when we let unemployed/unskilled workers into our country unlike US or Australia!
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crosspatch, the 7/7 London attacks were intended to be a Mumbai-like event. I doubt the risk has been reduced since then - Mumbai is the sort of thing the jihadis hope to pull off in western countries.
As the flu showed this past winter, the UK is overly lean in some emergency / attack response capabilities. It's not a bad thing if the authorities took the lesson.
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Ive met with Dame Neville-Jones a long time ago . She is of 'good stock' , and is to put it mildly , extremely well informed .
If she said jump , I would . If she thinks something is a necessity , then I would trust her judgment . Her two predecessors never earnt my trust , a pair of sniveling ladder climbing weasels if ever there were a pair .
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