ABSTRACT
Editorial note: This article is the first of four contributions by law enforcement practitioners addressing their concerns about likely directions for future developments in terrorism. David Veness is a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, London, with responsibility for policing terrorism. The paper begins by outlining the changing context to terrorism, and then develops the practical and policy concerns from a law enforcement perspective which emerge from that new context. The themes developed in this paper offer a particularly valuable perspective from someone with a direct responsibility for the management of terrorist incidents.
