Terrorist Offences (45)

The PSNI District Commander in Derry has praised the swift actions of his officers following two explosions in the city centre area last night (Thurs 19 Jan).

Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin said:

Officers from Kent Police will be in Canterbury tomorrow afternoon, Friday 2 September, renewing their appeal for information about two bomb hoaxes in the city centre last week.

Just before midday on Saturday 21 May, Police received reports that three masked men had entered premises in the Diamond area of Derry City.

The men told staff they had a bomb that would explode in one hour.

The area was evacuated and at approximately 1.20pm the device exploded. There are no reports of any injuries. An investigation into the explosion is ongoing.

A bomb threat warning has been received relating to central London today.

The threat is not specific in relation to location or time.

The Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police and British Transport Police are working closely together and all officers have been advised to be a highly vigilant to ensure the  safety of London.

A homemade pipe bomb was pushed through a letter box at a house in Swinton.

The device then exploded, causing damage to the front door and the letter box to be completely blown off.

It happened at about 11.45pm at a house on Westminster Street, on Saturday 23 April 2011.

A petrol bomb was hurled through the window of a house in Crossacres.

It happened on Cardew Avenue at about 10.30pm on Saturday 23 April 2011.

The occupant, a 42-year-old woman, was sitting in the living room when a brick was thrown through the downstairs window.

The officer leading the investigation into the murder of Ronan Kerr has given details of the bomb which killed the 25-year-old Constable last Saturday.

A specialist police unit is urging the public to report any terrorist or violent extremist content they find on the Internet.

The ACPO Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU) was set up a year ago to make the Internet a more hostile place for terrorists.

A British Airways worker has been found guilty of supplying an international terrorist with information about airlines, which could be used to plot a terrorist attack.

Rajib Karim, 31, who worked in their IT department in Newcastle, arrived in the UK from Bangladesh in 2006 and deliberately set out to find a job that would be useful to him to plan terror attacks.

Roads around Wednesbury police station have reopened after military ordnance in the back of a van close to the station was found to be safe.

The alert was sparked after the driver of the van walked into the station at 3.42pm and reported having a surface-to-air missile in the back.

The metre long device was collected from a house clearance in Leicester.

Twelve men have been arrested this morning in a large-scale, pre-planned, intelligence-led national counter terrorism operation.

The men - five from Cardiff, four from Stoke and three from London - were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK (Terrorism Act 2000).

Arsonists threw petrol bombs at two houses on the same Northern Moor street.

At 11.50pm on Sunday 20 June 2010, police were called after fire bombs were thrown at houses on Gateacre Walk.

Each attack caused small fires outside the two houses, which were extinguished quickly.

Nobody was injured.

Second night of disorder, Broadway area, Belfast

Six police officers have been injured during disturbances in the Broadway and Bog Meadows areas of Belfast for a second night.

Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses after an object that was alight was thrown at an address in Dalkeith in the early hours of this morning (June 28).

Police were called after a window was smashed at the property in Woodburn Road at 00.40am.

Despite the damage to the window, the burning object bounced off the glass and extinguished itself on the ground.

Officers from Hinckley local policing unit have released images of a man they are trying to trace following an incident at a bank during the weekend.

Police received a call at approximately 11.10am on Saturday June 12, after a bank in The Borough in Hinckley received a bomb threat.