Former Met chief superintendent Dal Babu on the Home Office report

Evening Standard

Claims of two-tier policing are a “right-wing extremist narrative”, an internal Home Office review into extremism has suggested.Civil servants reportedly found the claim, pushed by right-wing figures including Elon Musk following the UK riots last summer, was among a litany of "damaging extremist beliefs".

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00:00I think that it is very important that we do things in a measured way. We do not do things

00:05very quickly when we are outraged by incidents. If you remember, after the bombings of 7-7,

00:13ministers wanted to extend detention to 90 days for terrorism offences,

00:19when we have 14 days. It is always important to do things in a measured way. Unfortunately,

00:25when we have these outrageous murders of innocent people, people are, quite rightly,

00:31angry and want to know whether things can be done differently and whether there are missed

00:34opportunities. However, the key thing is to look at the missed opportunities and the resources

00:39that we have in place to deal with serious incidents and to be very careful of introducing

00:45legislation.

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