{"id":4026,"date":"2008-07-03T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2008-07-03T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:21:07","slug":"five-homes-raided-under-terror-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/five-homes-raided-under-terror-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Five homes raided under Terror Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/five-homes-raided-in-terror-probe-858002.html\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Dawson and Danielle Dwyer<\/a> | Five houses were raided by police today as part of an inquiry into a gang suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_off-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_on-->The properties were all in Stoke-on-Trent, including three in Cobridge, one in the High Lane area of Burslem and one in Tunstall, Staffordshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said the raids were part of an &#8220;ongoing investigation into the activities of a small group of people suspected of being involved in promoting violent extremist views and radicalising vulnerable community members&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;They are being conducted under the Terrorism Act and have been prompted by concerns about the activities of a small number of people in the local community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No-one has been arrested so far, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers would continue searching four of the five houses this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The raid at the Tunstall property was completed earlier today, the force said.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives stressed that they had acted upon the community&#8217;s concerns and said the operation was the &#8220;latest stage of the force&#8217;s investigation to resolve them and help establish the facts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The operation posed no direct risk to public safety, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Superintendent Jane Sawyers, divisional commander for Stoke-on-Trent, said: &#8220;I am extremely proud of the strong community relations we have in the city and would ask for the public&#8217;s continued support and vigilance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can only tackle the real and serious threat posed to us all by violent extremism if we all work together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Staffordshire Police&#8217;s role is to protect, reassure and support the local community, and I&#8217;m sure that local residents will respond to the news of these searches taking place in a calm and sensible way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, I also fully understand that there may be concerns and feelings of vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are working closely with our communities to support everyone by keeping them informed about today&#8217;s operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_off--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Dawson and Danielle Dwyer | Five houses were raided by police today as part of an inquiry into a gang suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people. \u00a0 The properties were all in Stoke-on-Trent, including three in Cobridge, one in the High Lane area of Burslem and one in Tunstall, Staffordshire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1615,16],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-4026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uk-news","7":"category-war-terrorism","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}