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		</div><p>Police have thwarted five terror attacks in the last few weeks including some which were &#8220;very close&#8221; to being carried out, Britain&#8217;s most senior police officer has said.</p>
<p>This year alone, the UK has been targeted by four terror attacks &#8211; three of which happened in London in busy and popular areas &#8211; which killed and injured scores of people. Speaking on Nick Ferrari&#8217;s show on LBC on Friday, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said a &#8220;very large number of plots&#8221; have been foiled over the last few years.</p>
<p>Pressed on exactly how many attacks have been thwarted, she said that in &#8220;just the last few weeks&#8221;, five have been averted. &#8220;Overall I think it is well into the teens in the last couple of years, where we know people were intent on attacking and that has been stopped,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;In addition, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of arrests of people who are radicalised, and are either spreading hatred or supporting terrorism, or want to carry out a terrorist attack. &#8220;We have had a huge number of successful operations, together with the intelligence agencies and we work very closely with them and with colleagues overseas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Quizzed on how far-progressed the thwarted attacks were, Ms Dick suggested some of them were within minutes of being executed by terrorists. &#8220;Some of them were very close, we would say, to an attack &#8211; very close,&#8221; she said. TerrorWhen asked if they were &#8220;within minutes&#8221; of being carried out, Ms Dick replied: &#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
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