London Police Hampered By Encryption

In her first major speech on counter-terrorism, the London Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, also disclosed that six plots have been foiled in the last four months

The fight on terrorism is being made tougher by encryption on the web and messaging services, the Met’s chief said recently.

Commissioner Cressida Dick (pictured) also warned of a rising threat from “large numbers of apparently volatile individuals, some determined to die”.

The fight on terrorism is being made tougher by encryption on the web and messaging services, the Met’s chief said yesterday.

In her first major speech on counter-terrorism, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner also disclosed that six plots have been foiled in the last four months.

The Scotland Yard chief’s remarks on encryption underline the challenge for the Government as it seeks to clamp down on online “safe spaces” where terrorists and other serious criminals can communicate without detection.

Scrutiny has focused on so-called end-to-end encryption, which is built in to messaging services such as WhatsApp and means that messages are encoded in such a way that only the sending and receiving devices can read them.

Police and MI5 are running more than 500 investigations into 3,000 individuals assessed as posing the greatest threat.

There are a further 20,000 former subjects of interest whose risk remains subject to review.

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