YES: Norman Bettison, chief constable, West Yorkshire Police
We have seen first hand how people who were our neighbours in West Yorkshire became involved in violent extremism, resulting in terrible loss of life on 7 July 2005.
We will never know if early intervention with Mohammed Sadiq Khan and his accomplices might have prevented that atrocity. But we do know that others will follow, trying to exploit vulnerable people in those communities and foist upon them twisted ideologies.
This cross-government initiative commits all of us who have a stake in ensuring the safety of communities to creating an environment whereby this engagement can take place.
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