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According to [[Contest 2]], Project Rich Picture will be expanded in the future across policing and the security services and will also include 'external partners'.<ref>[http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/contest/contest-strategy/contest-strategy-20092835.pdf?view=Binary Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009], ''HM Government'', p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.</ref>These external partners could include Muslim community groups and community representatives. | According to [[Contest 2]], Project Rich Picture will be expanded in the future across policing and the security services and will also include 'external partners'.<ref>[http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/contest/contest-strategy/contest-strategy-20092835.pdf?view=Binary Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009], ''HM Government'', p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.</ref>These external partners could include Muslim community groups and community representatives. | ||
Revision as of 07:44, 12 August 2010
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Project Rich Picture is the code name given to a covert Security Service (MI5) and Police project aimed at collating intelligence and information relating to the radicalisation of British Muslims.[1]
The UK Government's Contest strategy states that the objective of Project Rich Picture is to:
"Provide a wider understanding of the context of terrorist activity and radicalisation in this country. Under this programme information is collected on issues related to violent extremist activity in local communities".[2]
The Independent reported that the instigation of Project Rich Picture has led the Security Services and the Police to investigate up to '8,000 suspected al-Qa'ida sympathisers' in 'colleges, mosques and internet websites' in order to ensure that those individuals who may be trying to 'groom or radicalise those sympathetic to the aims of al-Qa'ida' are apprehended and prevented.[3]
Expansion
According to Contest 2, Project Rich Picture will be expanded in the future across policing and the security services and will also include 'external partners'.[5]These external partners could include Muslim community groups and community representatives.
Notes
- ↑ Jason Bennetto, MI5 conducts secret inquiry into 8,000 al-Qa'ida 'sympathisers' The Independent, 3 July 2006, accessed 15.03.2010
- ↑ Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009, HM Government, p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.
- ↑ Jason Bennetto, MI5 conducts secret inquiry into 8,000 al-Qa'ida 'sympathisers' The Independent, 3 July 2006, accessed 15.03.2010
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedACPO - ↑ Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009, HM Government, p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.
