Cameron orders firearms police to prepare for Paris-style attack which spreads from city to rural areas and lasts for days

Monday, January 12, 2015
By Paul Martin

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By MATT CHORLEY
DailyMailUK
12 January 2015

Britain’s counter-terror police are be given extra training in how to deal with a Paris-style attack which spreads across the country and lasts for days.

David Cameron today held talks with spy chiefs to step up Britain’s defences against the threat posed by a ‘fanatical death cult of Islamist extremist violence’.

Training exercises involving the police, military and security agencies will be adapted in the wake of the murderous attacks in France last week which left 17 victims dead.

Home Secretary Theresa May and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon were joined by security agencies and Met Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan Howe for the briefing in Downing Street.

Mr Cameron asked the police and military to ‘continue to work closely together’ to ensure that the police, who lead on counter-terror measures, can call on military back-up when needed across the country.

Discussion centred on levels of preparedness for ‘marauding’ gun attacks, similar to those seen in Mumbai in 2008 when 164 people died in 12 shooting and bomb attacks over four days.

Police and security agencies ‘regularly’ carry out training exercises to test their response to a terror attack, including scenarios similar to the incidents in Paris, Downing Street said.

‘The meeting agreed that for future exercises, the relevant agencies should identify whether there are any further specific elements of the Paris attack that should be built into the exercise scenarios.’

It is understood that particular focus has been on the way brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi moved from central Paris after carrying out their attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine.

They are said to have spent a night in woodland before trying to return to the capital, before becoming holed up on an industrial estate in the small town of Dammartin-en-Goele.

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