Police cuts will be disaster for national security, warns counter-terrorism head

Neil Basu, senior national counter-terrorism coordinator, says funding cuts for local policing will harm intelligence effortsNational security is being endangered by cuts to local policing, which amount to a potential disaster in the fight to stop Islamist and neo-Nazi attacks, according to one of Britain’s leading counter-terrorism police officers.Neil Basu, senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism, told the Guardian that two decades of progress in neighbourhood policing were at