The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.
Prevent
The Prevent strategy, published by the government in 2011, is part of our overall counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST. The aim of the Prevent strategy is to reduce the threat to the UK from terrorism by stopping people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. In the act this has simply been expressed as the need to "prevent people from being drawn into terrorism".
This is departmental advice from the Department for Education. This advice is non-statutory, and has been produced to help recipients understand the implications of the Prevent duty. The Prevent duty is the duty in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 on specified authorities, in the exercise of their functions, to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
Procedures for handling bomb threats, November 2020
The vast majority of bomb threats are hoaxes, designed to cause alarm and disruption, and instances of valid bomb threats are rare. Terrorists and others may make hoax bomb threat calls to intimidate the public, businesses and communities, to draw attention to their cause and to mislead police.
While many bomb threats involve a person-to-person phone call, an increasing number are sent electronically using email or social media applications. No matter how ridiculous or implausible the threat may seem, all such communications are a crime and should be reported to the police by dialling 999.
It is important that potential recipients - either victims or third parties used to pass on the message - have plans that include how the information is recorded, acted upon and passed to the police.
Procedures for handling bomb threats are available on the GOV.UK website.