Article 6003B UK warned it is failing to adapt as terror threat shifts from groups to lone attackers

UK warned it is failing to adapt as terror threat shifts from groups to lone attackers

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Mark Townsend
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Five years after London Bridge and Borough Market attacks, watchdog says psychologists should feature in counter-terrorism

Psychologists and behavioural scientists should be deployed more frequently to counter-terrorism operations as the number of neurodivergent individuals under investigation rises, a watchdog has advised.

The government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation told the Observer that evaluating the threat from individuals with conditions like autism was becoming an increasingly prevalent challenge. Jonathan Hall QC said: You are seeing a lot more neurodivergence and mental health coming into terrorist investigations, and that's also having an impact on deradicalisation programmes.

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