Recent years have seen a considerable increase in people radicalizing online. This is both true for extreme right-wing extremist and religious extremist groups. In response to this proliferation, social, community, police and intelligence services have increasingly begun setting up early detection schemes to prevent people from radicalization or supporting terrorist activities.
In this episode, Lucinda Creighton is joined by Nik Adam, National Coordinator for the UK's Prevent Program. Nik Adams is a chief superintendent with the Metropolitan Police London and is the national coordinator for UK’s Prevent program. Before being appointed as the national coordinator for Prevent, Nik has spent 18 years working in front-line neighborhood policing roles, and over 10 years volunteering as a school governor of a large inner-city school in London. The Prevent program seeks to stop people from becoming radicalized or supporting terrorist activities, including those of extreme right wing and Islamist ideologies.
