Londonistan: Policing's Utopia (AM)

This from the Beeb:

The police are considering proposals to share intelligence and information with Muslims before launching anti-terror operations.

The plans, announced by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, are part of a wider vision to engage more with British Muslims whose support police need in fighting terrorism.

At a conference on Islamophobia, Sir Ian told his largely Muslim audience that combating the threat of extremism and terrorism was something his officers could not do alone. "It will not be the police and intelligence services that defeat terrorism, it will be communities," he said...

As a measure of their seriousness, the police have just appointed a full-time officer to lead their work on community engagement. Commander Richard Gargini has been in the police service since 1976 and has extensive experience in dealing with high-risk police operations dealing with murder and other serious crime...One of his key tasks, and perhaps a controversial one [uh, yeah], is to develop a policy whereby Muslims will be consulted before an anti-terror raid happens..."What we intend to do is invite selected, influential leaders from the Muslim community to come in and assist us when we are planning and dealing with new information -- this has worked extremely well in the black community and the shootings that have taken place amongst black men," he said.