Counter-terrorist bodies call issue summer holiday warning to parents
A series of United Kingdom agencies struggling with terrorism issued a warning that parents could be vulnerable to their children’s online influenced during summer holidays.
For the first time, Terrorism Policing (CTP), MI5 and the National Crime Agency (NCA) issued a joint statement that requested more wakefulness.
Parents encourages their children to discuss with their children, as well as putting parent controls on devices and routers.
Groups, more and more children “routinely the most serious harmful online content exposed to” said they saw.
Groups, children “sexual violence; self -harm and suicide content; Excessive blood; animal persecution, inappropriate images of children and inappropriate images of terrorist content, including some of the most excessive content, he said.
Groups, in a statement, CTP and NCA’nın attracted the attention of some children “extreme and obscene content is completely insensitive,” he said.
Vicki Evans, the senior national coordinator of Terrorism Policing, is online that “he can feel like a war uphill in the constantly developing digital world.”
“We want parents to know what to do if they encounter inappropriate content to their children online.”
Alexander Murray of the National Crime Agency said it was “a faster growing threat from online gangs of loyal and violent online gangs, which is predominantly described in the last threat assessment.”
He said that these groups commit “fraud, cyber, child sexual abuse, violence and extremism/terrorism.”
The prevalence of young criminals is seen as part of a trend, MI5 says that since 2023 has seen the most arrests for young people since registrations – 42 out of 219 people investigated that terrorism was 17 years and under.
In 2024, 39 young people were investigated for terrorist crimes.
MI5’s General Manager Sir Ken McCallum, tendency “deeply worried” and “a few short clicks, young people can talk to dangerous radical radical terrorists online, can consume severe and extremist content.”
