Extract from Public Bill committee Hansard for the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill - July 3
Wednesday, 4 July 2018 07:47
Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth) (Lab/Co-op):...I have
had a close working relationship with South Wales
Police for many years, and my experience of Prevent locally
has been largely positive. Indeed, my interactions with South
Wales Police overall have been positive. I know that they take
great care to engage with the relevant parts of communities, build
the necessary personal relationships and focus on what they can do
to prevent young people from being drawn...Request free trial
(Cardiff South and Penarth)
(Lab/Co-op):...I have had a close working relationship
with South
Wales Police for many years, and my experience of
Prevent locally has been largely positive. Indeed, my interactions
with South
Wales Police overall have been positive. I know that
they take great care to engage with the relevant parts of
communities, build the necessary personal relationships and focus
on what they can do to prevent young people from being drawn into
any form of terrorism or extremism—not just Islamist-related
extremism, which is regularly referred to, but far-right and other
types of extremism...
...A few months ago, just before I was due to speak at an
anti-racism march in Cardiff, neo-Nazi swastikas and slogans were
posted all over the community on the route that many children take
to school. The fantastic response by South Wales Police and the council
re-established trust and assurance in the community, but there is
understandably concern about what the individuals who are drawn
into such groups may do....
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