A large number of pieces of information are being shared with authorities by the public daily to help foil horror attacks in the UK, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer has said. Helper Commissioner Mark Rowley advised BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that cooperation between the police and community was the "greatest advantage" in fighting terror episodes.

With the risk of a terror attack considered as "severe" since 2014, "even more public assistance" was needed, said Rowley. It is the second-highest of Britain's five risk levels, indicating that an attack is 'highly likely'.

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It is about after a series of horror attacks in Europe associated with Islamic State (Isis), including last week's strike on a church in Normandy, France, by two teenagers who murdered a priest and critically hurt a parishioner before being shot dead.

Police have not ruled out terrorism as a motive in a botched attempt by two men to kidnap an RAF serviceman exterior RAF Marham on 20 July. On Sunday, City Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said that a terror attack in the UK is a subject of "when, not if. inches

Rowley said that the British public make 3, 600 contributions in the fight against terrorism every day, with the public reporting incidents starting from people behaving suspiciously in public, to friends and neighbours they presumed were at risk of violent radicalisation.

He said it was important that police could actually intervene before people's beliefs became too extreme, approximately 60 to 70 cases a month were being resolved. Of a sixth of these conditions were referred to law enforcement by the general public, he said.

He replied in the affirmative when asked if some leads were supporting to prevent people being murdered in terror problems. He added: "We are drawing people back from a path towards extremism through partnership activity. Actually if you take a view that 90% of those people may have self-treated or not absent on to become terrorists, that is still a massive effect. "

A recent Europol report found that more terror hits were planned or performed in the UK than in any other European union country, with the vast majority considered to be linked with N . Irish terrorism.

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