What & Who discovers terrorist plots?

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Nearly missed this report on Anglo-Australian academic research on 'community reporting'; the Australia research came first and was built upon here:

It expands and develops the approach of the Australian study through a sample of 75 community members and professional practitioners, with a particular focus on young adults, matching the demographic profile of many plotters and those who travelled to Syria. The UK study’s preliminary findings suggest we need to re-examine policy and practice approaches around two key issues.

Two points emerged:

First, sharing concerns with authorities about an ‘intimate’ is likely to be the last resort, with respondents much more likely to seek help from figures of authority within communities first....Second, reporting processes around terrorism are not clearly understood by community members or professional practitioners and need to be both strengthened and clarified. As in Australia, respondents in our current study express a strong preference for face to face reporting – they largely do not trust on-line or telephone based methods.

Link to summary article:https://crestresearch.ac.uk/comment/...ity-reporting/ and the full report (not yet read) is:https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resource...ds-full-report

(Added) A statement in November 2017 by a senior police officer, responsible for CT; which in sum says:

funding cuts for local policing will harm intelligence efforts

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...head-neil-basu