article_snippet: The almost weekly raids now being carried out by anti-terror police are taking place throughout Britain; from the eastern port of Dover to the western town of Hayle in Cornwall, and from Portsmouth on the south coast to Manchester and Bolton in the North.
article_snippet: As well as raids in London, Birmingham and Manchester, suspects have been detained in towns around the Home Counties, Wales and the Midlands.
article_snippet: Meanwhile, the number of Syria-related terror arrests increased six-fold from just 25 in 2013 to 165 in 2014.
article_snippet: Senior national co-ordinator for counter terrorism policing Helen Ball said earlier this year: 'We have been running exceptionally high numbers of investigations, the likes of which We have not seen for many years. '
article_snippet: Several attack plots have been disrupted, of various sophistication, from individuals planning to carry out lone attacks to more complex conspiracies, the majority seemingly directed by or inspired by terrorism overseas.'
article_snippet: The range of suspected offences which arrests were made for include funding terrorism, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism and attending a terrorist training camp.
article_snippet: Since then, a string of further trials have taken place, with  convictions of women funding boyfriends and husbands fighting abroad, groups returning from jihadi camps and others inspired by the violence to plot atrocities in the UK.
highlights_snippet: Police are having to deal with an unprecedented number of terrorists inspired and linked to Middle East conflict .
  
highlights_snippet: Arrests related to the war-torn country increased six fold last year - with regular raids carried out around Britain .
  
highlights_snippet: Bulk of those convicted are from London, but arrests have been made from the Home Countries to the North West .
  
highlights_snippet: Police recorded more than 150 arrests linked to Middle East conflict in 2014 with at least 14 convictions in past year .