Neil Basu, the most senior counter terrorism officer, will become the first ethnic minority Met commissioner if he succeeds Dame Cressida Dick. Basu, the most senior officer of Asian heritage is the son of an Indian doctor and white Welsh nurse. “He is still regularly and wrongly described as Muslim”, The Times reported. Basu has been known to be vocal against social media companies for :allowing radical material to spread online”.
“It doesn’t matter what the crime is, serious and organised crime or the incredibly serious crime of terrorism, end-to-end encryption will make [our] job remarkably difficult and lives in my view will be lost as a result,” he told the publication. Basu called on Facebook to rethink the concept of social media sharing, which in his understanding, is a “disaster”.
