Great Britain will hire an additional 1.900 security and intelligence agents to counter the threat of terrorist attacks after the bloody massacre in Paris, British media reported today.
The move is the biggest increase in involvement in the British security service since the bombings in London in 2005, when dozens of people were killed, and the measure will be officially announced by British Prime Minister David Cameron later today, writes the Guardian.
"I am determined to commit the resources we need to fight the terrorist threat because protecting the British people is my number one duty as Prime Minister," Cameron said, according to the British daily.
The recruitment will increase the number of personnel (agents) of the British intelligence services MI5, MI6 and GCHO by about 15 percent, the Guardian and the Financial Times write.
"This is a generational struggle that requires us to provide greater forces to fight against those who would destroy us and our values," Cameron said, AFP reported.
As well as increasing the number of agents in Britain's security services, extra aviation security officers will be deployed at airports around the world in response to the downing of a Russian airliner in Egypt last month, as the British government suspects the plane was brought down by a bomb.
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