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		</div><p>Isolated communities, segregation and unregulated schooling in the UK are a &#8220;breeding ground&#8221; for extremism and future jihadists, a counter-terrorism police chief has warned.</p>
<p>Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu said there was a &#8220;definite problem&#8221; of second-generation Britons who became radicalised through the &#8220;very toxic combination&#8221; of isolation and extremist online content.</p>
<p>Police are dealing with nearly 600 active investigations after a &#8220;summer like no other&#8221; that saw major attacks in Manchester and London that left dozens of people dead and more than 200 injured, he said.</p>
<p>The attacks led to a &#8220;massive spike&#8221; in the number of calls to the national terrorism hotline, trebling the number of leads. Meanwhile the number of new investigations launched since March has surged by 75% to 65, while police have foiled five attacks.</p>
<p>Security services currently have 3,000 open &#8220;subjects of interest&#8221;, while there are 20,000 previous subjects of interest, Mr Basu said, warning: &#8220;Those numbers are just going to keep increasing.&#8221; Addressing the Police Superintendents&#8217; Association conference, he said fears that the fall of the Islamic State terror group in the Middle East would lead to a rise in attacks from overseas had been replaced by the danger posed by home-grown jihadists.</p>
<p>&#8220;The threat was the traveller or the returning fighter, who was battle-hardened and even angrier, but now it&#8217;s the threat in our midst,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We stopped a lot of those would-be jihadists travelling too and some of those remain committed to their cause. If they can&#8217;t travel, then why not attack us here.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is also a definite problem in segregated and isolated communities and with what I think is an even more extreme second generation.&#8221; Mr Basu said disenfranchised groups were being radicalised by propaganda delivered in &#8220;six-second soundbites through their handheld devices 24/7&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Segregated and isolated communities, unregulated and home schooling are a breeding ground for extremism and future terrorism,&#8221; the officer said. As a result police find it very difficult to profile and identify any would-be attackers, as they come from a variety of backgrounds and are of all ages and genders.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have been the educated, they have been the illiterate and they have been the completely unknown,&#8221; Mr Basu said.</p>
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