Detention of Suspected Terrorists

Border controls are measures taken by a country or multiple countries to monitor its borders in order to regulate the movement of people, animals and goods. With the UK having voted to leave the European Union in 2016, it means that in the near future the UK's border security will be much tighter and more difficult to access. As for the EU, its counter-terrorism strategy was adopted shortly after attacks in Madrid in 2004 and in London in 2005. The attacks in Paris in 2015 accelerated the development of new measures.

Almost 8,000 Europeans from over 20 different countries are believed to have travelled to areas in conflict in Syria and Iraq to join jihadist terrorist groups, according to Europol. Although there is a decrease in the amount of people travelling recently, the number of returning foreign fighters is expected to rise if Islamic State is defeated militarily or collapses.

Deportation/Detention of Suspected Terrorists

After the terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September 2001, President George Bush declared a war on terror'. He argued that the need to counter terrorism and keep people safe overrode the obligation to respect human rights. Guant??namo Bay is a prison camp that was established by the United States in January 2002 as a place for the US authorities to hold people who were believed to be enemy combatants' in this war on terror. The first detainees were transferred to the prison camp on 11 January 2002.

In October 2012 Abu Hamza was deported from the UK after a lengthy 8 year legal battle and many appeals to maintain his British passport. Abu Hamza (born Mustafa Kamel Mustafa in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1958) came to the UK in 1979 with a student visa. In 1980 he became married to Valerie Fleming, a British citizen who had now allowed Hamza to gain full access to the UK. The couple eventually got divorced in 1983.

Hamza was infamously known for his radical hate speeches towards the west that he gave in London mosques including a speech he gave after the events on 11th September 2001, in which he praised the events and the plane hijacks. In February 2003 Hamza again caused outrage when he described the Colombia space shuttle, which contained Christians, Hindus and a Jewish person as a ''trinity of evil'' and said its destruction was a punishment from Allah.
Having been 6 years since Hamza was extradited to the USA, it is still feared that his hate speeches might have inspired other radical islamist individuals to either make their own public speeches, or worse, cause an attack on a public place.

Stop and Searches

Stop and searches are most common within airports worldwide and were mainly introduced along with other security measures after 11th September 2001 and are used in many other public places such as concert venues, theme parks and even on the streets. They are most often used for Police officers to check whether or not the person they are searching has something that could be potentially harmful towards themselves or anyone else in the area.

Many people believe that random searches can sometimes be racially discriminating towards minority groups as they feel they are often targeted to be searched rather than Caucasian individuals.
Despite all of the racial allegations that stop and searches cause, people would argue that they do help with catching terror suspects and can sometimes make people feel safer knowing that they're taking place.

Cyber Security/terrorism

Cyber terrorism is the use of the internet to conduct violent acts that result in or directly threaten the loss of life significant bodily harm in order to achieve either political or ideological gains using threats or intimidation. Methods in which cyber attacks occur most frequently include social media and private emails.

According to a report found within an online news source said that There were 638 million attempted ransomware cyber attacks in 2016. These attacks were examples of ransomware attacks, in which people's emails were frozen' and were not accessible and were held under ransom unless the owner paid up'. Cyber security groups have been said to be working on ways to prevent the attacks from even reaching people by using computer vaccines'.

Social media platforms also help to look out for suspicious activities and attitudes. These individuals and groups make pages on different social media platforms as a way to convince civilians that they are legitimate accounts/pages.

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