Three terror attacks have been prevented in the UK since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to security services.
Arrests for terrorism-related activity fell by 34% in 2020, the lowest level in nine years, Home Office data showed. But the number of terror plots stopped has risen to 28 since March 2017, counter terror police said.
A senior officer warned: “Terrorists have not stopped planning attacks or radicalising vulnerable people online.”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said officers had made “185 arrests across more than 800 live investigations – stopping three possible terror attacks in the process”.