Armed police out in force to protect bargain hunters: Concrete barriers placed at Trafalgar Square following urgent security review in the wake of the Berlin terror attacks

• Undercover and armed police will shield festive consumers this Boxing Day
• Measures taken after evaluate of safety adopted the terrorist assault in Berlin
• Safety additionally being tightened across the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland occasion 

By Inderdeep Bains for the Each day Mail

Printed: 21:00 EST, 25 December 2016 | Up to date: 07:23 EST, 26 December 2016

Undercover and armed police can be defending festive consumers this Boxing Day as police throughout the nation are on excessive alert for a terrorist assault.

Concrete limitations are additionally anticipated for use to guard the tens of 1000's of revellers due in central London's Trafalgar Sq. to observe the New Yr's Eve fireworks.

The measures are being taken after an pressing evaluate of safety adopted the terrorist assault in Berlin the place a hijacked lorry ploughed by a Christmas market killing 12 and injuring 50.

Concrete limitations are additionally anticipated for use to guard the tens of 1000's of revellers due in central London's Trafalgar Sq. to observe the New Yr's Eve fireworks

Enormous numbers of persons are anticipated in London at present as consumers flock to the capital for the gross sales. 

Sources informed The Sunday Occasions that 80 undercover officers can be on responsibility in areas together with Oxford Avenue and the Westfield buying centres.

Safety can be being tightened across the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland occasion. As well as, there can be extra armed and undercover officers on London's transport community, a supply stated. 

Forces throughout the nation have reviewed their procedures in mild of the Berlin assault.

Safety was stepped up dramatically final week, with police forces dispatching scores of officers to UK Christmas markets.

Guests to Canterbury Cathedral's conventional festive show had been confronted by the sight of cops bearing assault rifles. 

The measures are being taken after an pressing evaluate of safety adopted the terrorist assault in Berlin the place a hijacked lorry ploughed by a Christmas market killing 12 and injuring 50

Safety can be being tightened across the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland occasion

And in an unprecedented transfer, Scotland Yard introduced a big tightening of safety across the altering of the guard at Buckingham Palace. 

The measure was described as a 'obligatory precaution' to guard the substantial variety of army personnel and crowds of vacationers. 

A Whitehall supply stated: 'We all know what Isis's favorite goal is: crowded public areas, predominantly, buying centres, all that stuff.'

÷ The Berlin lorry terrorist Anis Amri, who was shot lifeless by police in Milan on Friday, reportedly urged his 18-year-old nephew to kill his sister's police officer husband as a part of twisted Islamic extremist initiation. 

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