We're not here to police language, says Yorkshire counter-terror official
A senior Yorkshire official in the Government's anti-radicalisation Prevent scheme has insisted that counter-terror officials have no interest in 'policing innocent mistakes' in the way people use language.
Detective Superintendent Nik Adams, regional coordinator for Prevent, said recent cases where a young boy was apparently reported for misspelling the phrase ‘terraced house’ as ‘terrorist house’, “couldn’t be further from the reality”.
And he said that some community leaders are reluctant to support his team’s work “in a very vocal way” because of the hostility they would face locally and negative perceptions of the controversial scheme.
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