Rishi Sunak allocates funds for UK's new Counter Terrorism Operations Centre

Thursday, 26 November 2020Newsdesk

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced to set aside millions of pounds to establish a world-leading Counter Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) based in London.

New Delhi, 26 November 2020

As per news report of PTI, as part of a Spending Review for the next year's budgetary plans tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, the finance minister said he would allocate an additional 400 million pound to help recruit 20,000 more police officers by 2023, with 6,000 new officers in 2021-22; 63 million pound to tackle economic crime; and 337 million pound extra funding for the criminal justice system, which will include the new CTOC -- expected to be fully operational within five years.

Source -PTI