BRITAIN says it is training extra firearms police amid growing fears of a "Mumbai-style" terror attack.
"We are working to prepare for any terrorist incident including a Mumbai-style attack in the UK," said Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones.
The government is "training more police officers to respond to an armed attack and enhancing existing levels of firearms training," she added during a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in central London.
Government ministers were also involved in "very testing" training exercises to help them to respond to such an attack, Neville-Jones said.
In September, it was revealed that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by Pakistan-based extremists. |