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The terror map of Britain: Soaring number of arrests and trials reveal how ISIS and Syrian war are inspiring extremists in the UK
Behind bars for waging jihad: The growing number of convictions of extremists from around Britain for crimes linked to ISIS’s war in Syria
- Police are having to deal with an unprecedented number of terrorists inspired and linked to Middle East conflict
- Arrests related to the war-torn country increased six fold last year – with regular raids carried out around Britain
- Bulk of those convicted are from London, but arrests have been made from the Home Countries to the North West
- Police recorded more than 150 arrests linked to Middle East conflict in 2014 with at least 14 convictions in past year
The impact of ISIS extremism in Syria is now being felt across the UK, maps charting the soaring number of terror arrests and convictions reveal.
The almost weekly raids now being carried out by anti-terror police are taking place throughout Britain; from the eastern port of Dover to the western town of Hayle in Cornwall, and from Portsmouth on the south coast to Manchester and Bolton in the North.
Whether it is stopping would-be jihadis from travelling to the Middle East, foiling planned plots when they return or disrupting their funding networks, the conflict in Syria has spawned a huge range of crimes for British authorities to deal with.
A map charting the location of arrests made in response to the threat from Syria-linked extremism shows it is not an issue confined to big cities.
As well as raids in London, Birmingham and Manchester, suspects have been detained in towns around the Home Counties, Wales and the Midlands.
Police estimated that, last year, up to five Britons a week travelled to Syria, making monitoring their movements on their return all the more difficult.
Meanwhile, the number of Syria-related terror arrests increased six-fold from just 25 in 2013 to 165 in 2014.
The Metropolitan Police said they are taking a ‘cradle to the grave approach’ to disrupting terrorism and last month made arrests in relation to an alleged scam in which say cold callers swindled pensioners out of money to fund ISIS.
Senior national co-ordinator for counter terrorism policing Helen Ball said earlier this year: ‘We have been running exceptionally high numbers of investigations, the likes of which we have not seen for many years.
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