Local Cuts Risk 'Disaster' For National Security, Warns Terror Police Chief

Cuts to local policing risk a “disaster” for maintaining national security, one of the country’s leading counter-terrorism officers has reportedly warned.Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism policing, said teams tackling Islamist and neo-Nazi extremists become “divorced from the frontline” when bobbies are taken off the beat.Two decades of work in neighbourhood policing, a vital source of intelligence on terrorist plots, is “in dang