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[[Image:ACPO diagram.jpg|right|thumb|500px|ACPO diagram showing the place of the following elements of the Prevent strategy: [[Rich Picture]], [[Operation Delphinus]], [[Operation Nicole]], [[MAPPA]], [[Channel Project]]<ref name="ACPO">Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism Allied Matters) Business Area [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2008/07/403360.pdf Police PREVENT Strategy - Partners Briefing], 'Restricted' 27th March 2008
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[[Image:ACPO diagram.jpg|right|thumb|500px|ACPO diagram showing the place of the following elements of the Prevent strategy: [[Rich Picture]], [[Operation Delphinus]], [[Operation Nicole]], [[MAPPA]], [[Channel Project]]<ref name="ACPO">Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism Allied Matters) Business Area [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2008/07/403360.pdf Police PREVENT Strategy - Partners Briefing], 'Restricted' 27th March 2008, This document is a restricted document and is not meant to be circulated outside the Local Strategic Partnership meeting, Version 1.7, accessed 12.08.10</ref>]]
This document is a restricted document and is not meant to be circulated outside the Local Strategic Partnership meeting, Version 1.7, accessed 12.08.10</ref>]]
 
 
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 07:47, 12 August 2010

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This article is part of the Counter-Terrorism Portal project of Spinwatch.

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

ACPO diagram showing the place of the following elements of the Prevent strategy: Rich Picture, Operation Delphinus, Operation Nicole, MAPPA, Channel Project[4]

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

  1. Jason Bennetto, MI5 conducts secret inquiry into 8,000 al-Qa'ida 'sympathisers' The Independent, 3 July 2006, accessed 15.03.2010
  2. Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009, HM Government, p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.
  3. Jason Bennetto, MI5 conducts secret inquiry into 8,000 al-Qa'ida 'sympathisers' The Independent, 3 July 2006, accessed 15.03.2010
  4. Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism Allied Matters) Business Area Police PREVENT Strategy - Partners Briefing, 'Restricted' 27th March 2008, This document is a restricted document and is not meant to be circulated outside the Local Strategic Partnership meeting, Version 1.7, accessed 12.08.10
  5. Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare: The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism March 2009, HM Government, p.65 - accessed 15.03.2010.