Scotland Yard launches biggest ever crackdown on guns in London

In view of the increase in incidents of stabbings and firearms offenses, the Met Police have launched joint operations of crackdown on guns involving hundreds of specialist officers, including firearms teams. Ever since January, 15 teenagers have been stabbed to death in London. Hence this operation of Scotland Yard - it is one of its biggest ever operations against gun and knife crime in the capital.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 11 December 2015.

Apart from the stabbings of teenagers, there have also been more than 350 firearms-related incidents in London so far this year - this is up 15% on the 2014 figure.
The crackdown follows a guns amnesty that had been announced two weeks after the Paris terror attacks. As a result of the amnesty, dozens of guns were recovered, including an AK47 assault rifle, the same kind of weapon used in the attack on the French capital.
The operation, codenamed Kestrel, is being run by the Trident and Area Crime Command.
The police have seized eight firearms, including two handguns and three sawn-off shotguns, four knives, two swords, 11 kilos of cocaine, three kilos of cannabis, one kilo of MDMA, four kilos of crack cocaine and heroin with a street value of £250,000.
Operation Kestrel is an extension of an earlier initiative that had been launched against knife crime in June in which 6000 arrests were made and 1,000 knives were seized.

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MI5 has made no bones about the fact that jihadists trained in extremist activities in Iraq and Syria have returned to Britain and the country is facing an 'unprecedented' threat from these Islamists who have been trained in terrorism overseas.
These jihadists include half of the nearly 700 Britons who have travelled to Iraq and Syria – they have returned back in the UK and could be plotting attacks.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 12 June 2015.

An inquiry has revealed that the number of extremists who had visited a training camp or fought alongside jihadists was higher than at any point before or after 9/11 and, there are also a large number of fanatics in the UK who were trained in other countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, East Africa and Yemen.
In the opinion of officers of Scotland Yard, troubled teenagers are being groomed online by the flood of Islamic State propaganda and street gang members who used to earlier be involved in crimes like knifing and muggings are forming Islamist cells. They are even trying to co-ordinate international plots.
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The London police have arrested four men from different locations in the city in an ongoing investigation into Islamist-related terrorism foxnews.com.

As per information released by the Scotland Yard, the men, who are in their early 20s, have been arrested after warrants were executed at various addresses. One of the men was tasered, but did not require medical attention.
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