A £5 million “ring of steel” is to be built around the city to protect London’s financial district and some of the Square Mile’s highest skyscrapers from terrorist attacks. Counter-terror specialists have put together plans for a secure cordon which would seal off key routes. Following advice from MI5 and counter-terrorism police, the Corporation of London is planning to install manned checkpoints, rising street bollards and crash-proof barricades. The Evening Standard reports: Manned checkpoints, rising street bollards, restricted roads and crash-proof barricades are among measures proposed to bolster the City’s defences by controlling the flow of traffic into the heart of the financial district. It follows warnings from MI5 that the “eastern cluster” of towers planned or being built around Bishopsgate is “highly sensitive to the threat of a hostile, vehicle-borne” attack. The original ring of steel went up around the City following IRA attacks on the Baltic Exchange in 1992 and on Bishopsgate the following year, which killed a total of four people. It was made up of road barriers, checkpoints and CCTV cameras on all main roads into the district. After the IRA ceasefire of 1994 the police presence at checkpoints was largely abandoned. The Square Mile’s new skyscrapers [...]
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