Contemporary Britain is so ridiculous, it would be a smash-hit comedy if it weren’t so tragic. “British police to hire CONVICTED TERRORISTS to combat Islamic State,” by Peter Henn, Express, August 26, 2015:
Scotland Yard wants to challenge Islamic extremism, and is getting what it describes as “significant” help from former radicals.
There is also an urgent need for operations in prisons to stop radicalisation and terror plotting from within jail, as the numbers of terrorists caged increases.
Commander Richard Walton, the Met’s head of counter-terrorism, wants to get prisoners who have recently been released on side, in an attempt to stop people going to fight in Syria.
He said former jihadis who have stopped radical activity had “the most powerful voices” in the fight against extremism.
He said: “We’re more likely to have success, as we do, with those who have been radicalised here and those who have been to prison.
“We can’t write off anyone convicted of a terrorist offence. We have got to try to work with them, engage with them, in prison if necessary, and try to turn them around.
“Some terrorist offence sentences for possession of extremist material are not lengthy. We know they are going to come out. It’s a concerning offence but they’ve not gone on to commit more serious terrorist offences, so there is an opportunity to work with them.
“A lot more could be done in that area. There has been some success on that. We talk to people in prison and when they come out.”
Mr Walton admitted radicalisation in prison was an issue because there were not yet counter-terrorism operations to tackle plots created inside.
He said: “We are convicting more people, so the challenge in prisons is bigger.
“Where operations start from within prison or with somebody who has just been released from jail, you know there wasn’t much success in de-radicalising them when they were in….
You don’t say!

Huck Folder says
He who has a tiger by the tail, never can let go.
cs says
If you take a look at the comments section, you will notice that they are in accordance with this forum here.
Dr. Divinity says
Yes he does let go….after the tiger. EATS him….and the tiger is eating the UK
Brian says
More foxes guarding the chicken coup…
jayell says
No, I think it’s a case of “It takes a thief to catch a thief”. I don’t know what they do in the USA, but over here the police have always groomed villains to act as informants, or become ‘friendly’ with reformed villains. They’re known as ‘Coppers’ Narks’, and it can be a dangerous pastime if you’re ‘grassing up’ the wrong type of villain. Not that I have any personal experience, you understand. Either that or they allow a villain to remain free whilst watching what he gets up to. Then, when he’s lost his usefulness, they nick him. They seemed to be doing that with the infamous Choudhary.
gerard says
Do they not know of Taqqya?
gerard says
The Authorities will do anything and everything except what is needed: investigate Islam. Then shut down Islam. Ban it. Drain the swamp…No more Mosque-itos, no more Malaria/Jihad. That will happen eventually, when we’re all sifting through the rubble looking for something to eat.
mortimer says
The ideology, the theology, the misogyny, the racism, the sociology, the militarism, the supremacism, the lacking historicity the illogic of Islam are all the problems that must be addressed before Muslims can see the intellectual impossibility of believing this intolerant Bronze Age Death Cult.
There are many first-class scholars alive who can create a curriculum that will shatter the belief of the most hardened and brainwashed Death Cultist in this vicious, toxic hogwash.
Mamie Dewar says
It’s sort of like getting people who ARE drug addicts to hunt down and arrest people who ARE drug addicts! Sure! That’ll work!
Peggy says
Why don’t you just recruit them for MI6 or Scotland Yard?
Give them top security clearance and watch them go to work. All these “former” terrorists have learned their lesson and can be trusted not to give any details of your operations to real terrorists. What exactly do they think these terrorists will do for them?
Babs says
All joking apart, we don’t know how many Islamist sympathisers are already employed in high office in MI5 and Scotland Yard. After all Hizb-ut-Tahrir is still not a banned organisation in the UK despite promises, and at least one – Mockbul Ali – was known to have been employed in the Foreign Office.
As for what they “think” terrorists will do for them, I doubt that it matters one jot. They just need to look nice to those of us who have the intelligence to question.
And boy am I questioning!!
Angemon says
This would make a terrific plot for a TV show, like Breakout Kings, but with bloodthirsty terrorists hellbent on shedding blood for their bloodthirsty divinity. Unfortunately, in real life, chances are that we’ll see a Shyamalan twist over and over – turns out the perps were helping, not to get their sentences reduced, but to get a chance to go “allahu akbar! – click – KABOOM” on their handlers.
Lia Wissing says
Won’t work as a stage play for it’s too slapsticky even for the normal watchers of farce and/or burlesque.
mortimer says
I doubt the ex-jihadists can do it because they haven’t the scholarship to dissuade anyone from jihad.
They can only inform the RADICAL ISLAMIST CHIC youth that it’s horrible to be in jail.
That won’t dissuade youth from pursuing jihad by another method.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
I doubt the ex-jihadists can do it because they haven’t the scholarship to dissuade anyone from jihad
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Mortimer, what leads you to believe that these are *ex* Jihadists? They are just identified as “convicted terrorists”–I doubt in most cases that they have changed their ideology at all. Their level of scholarship is the least of things. Besides, in most cases a Muslim well-versed in Islamic scholarship is more likely to embrace Islam, which includes violent JIhad.
gravenimage says
UK police to hire convicted terrorists to combat the Islamic State
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What could possibly go wrong? sarc/off
Peggy says
Nothing can go wrong. These terrorists know where other terrorist are. It’s like recruiting Hells Angels into the Drug Squad. They know where the drugs and dealers are and can warn them about any raids.
It takes special kind of stupid to be a police commissioner.
EYESOPEN says
I call it “brain dead”.
Charli Main says
No need to panic folks !!!!
They have all been ” deprogrammed” and made safe by the peace loving Imams from their local mosque.
Kim Bruce says
It’s really too bad Monty Python won’t tackle the job of creating a script for this. I guess you can’t blame them though…it’s far too dangerous.
Baucent says
“Some terrorist offence sentences for possession of extremist material are not lengthy. We know they are going to come out. It’s a concerning offence but they’ve not gone on to commit more serious terrorist offences, so there is an opportunity to work with them”.
Spoken like a wide eyed novice. Hilarious stuff! I suppose it hasn’t occurred to these P.C. Plods that in their eagerness to recruit a “former” Jihadist they may end up with a double agent and a security leak. That has happened before.
richard courtemanche says
And how would this far fetched idea actually work?
Betty says
ARE WE SURE OBAMA IS STILL IN AMERICA OR DID HE MOVE TO UK?
Linda Rivera says
What more evidence is needed to prove that UK ruling elites are 100% on the side of Muslim terrorists?
British police to hire CONVICTED TERRORISTS to combat Islamic State
I’m surprised that HM government doesn’t invite ISIS terrorists in Iraq to be part of the British government.
UK ruling elites are neither ignorant or naive. They know just like we know that lying to and deceiving infidels is a vital part of Islamic WAR strategy. Barbaric mass murder and huge sex slaver of infidels, the pedophile founder of Islam declared: WAR is DECEPTION.
Peggy says
Protecting Islam must be very profitable for the traitors. That’s why they have to pay a very high price for their treason.