Academic calls for ‘multi-agency’ approach to stop lone wolf terrorist attacks

Special teams of police, social workers, mental health practitioners, and community and religious leaders are needed to try and identify potential lone- wolf terrorists, according to a security expert.

Paul Gill said ‘lone actor’ terrorists generally leave clues in planning their attacks and also tend to tell someone what they are going to do – all of which provides opportunities for intervention.

Irish academic Dr Gill, based at University College London (UCL), said the traditional law enforcement model needed to expand to a “multi-agency” approach.