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Monday, March 20, 2017
London put into operation a staged terrorist attack response, 24 hours after a man was shot dead at Orly Airport in Paris.
Armed police officers, coastguards, firefighters and paramedics took part in a live drill that stimulated a waterborne attack on the River Thames.
The exercise was executed to test the effectiveness of emergency rescue tactics under real-life circumstances.
Officers taking part were not told of the nature of the simulation prior to undertaking the operation, which commenced from the point of an incident being reported to the conclusion of a rescue operation.
A terror review last year found that security measures on the River Thames needed to be strengthened.
The public has been assured that the operation, code-named ‘Anchor’, was not prompted by the threat of an impending attack, but rather by recent terrorism events in Europe that have highlighted how would-be attackers are using versatile ways to inflict harm.
Two weeks ago, it was revealed that in the last four years, 13 potential terrorist attacks in the UK have been foiled.
The last known UK terror plot, thwarted by security services, was in June 2015, when two men were found guilty of attempting to plan an anniversary bombing of the 7 July 2005 London bombings that killed 56 people and injured 784.
In June 2015, a stimulated terror threat operation occurred five days after a terror attack in Tunisia, in which 30 Britons were among the majority killed.
The UK remains in a severe official threat level for international terrorism. France went into a state of emergency after the November 2015 Paris attacks.