Britain will hire 1,900 additional officers for its intelligence agencies as part of new anti-terrorism measures following the Paris attacks. The package that authorities announced yesterday also doubles the budget for aviation security. It calls for more intensive nationwide security and immigration screenings.
Prime Minister David Cameron said in a speech that British security services had foiled no fewer than 7 terrorist plots in the country over the past year alone.
About 750 people are believed to have left Britain to join the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. British security authorities are on the alert as roughly half of them are believed to have returned to the country.