Warwickshire Police respond to raising of national security threat level

Armed police.. Picture by Eddie Mitchell

Warwickshire police has issues a statement in response to Prime Minister Theresa May raising the national security threat level for the UK to '˜critical' following the incident in London during the week.

Assistant Chief Constable Richard Moore said: “Following the events in London today, the Prime Minister has increased the UK threat level to critical.

“Warwickshire Police is working with all local and national emergency service partners to ensure we do everything possible to protect our communities.

“At this time there is no specific threat to Warwickshire but we will increase our Armed Response Vehicle (ARV) capacity in response to the national situation.