London ready for 10 terror attacks at same time in wake of Paris shootings

COPS in London have been told to prepare for as many as 10 terror attacks happening at once across the capital.

PREPARED: London has been ordered to be ready for ten terror attacks at once

Police have made cracking down on firearms a top priority, according to an unnamed Government minister.

The politician said: "We used to plan for three simultaneous attacks but Paris has shown that you need to be ready for more than that.

“We are ready if someone tries with seven, eight, nine, 10."

London has escalated its security in the wake of the horrific Paris attack in November last year, in which 129 people died in an "act of war".

And the IS member behind the atrocty Salah Abdeslam was shot and arrested in a counter terrorism raid in Brussels last week.

RAIDS: Armed police were on high alert in the five attacks

The wave of deadly attacks took place over just two hours, with 89 people executed at the Bataclan concert hall after gunmen stormed it and took hostages.

Three others were killed in two suicide bombings at the Stade de France, where the national football team had been playing Germany.

Dozens more died in several attacks and shootings at restaurants, all conducted by sick terror cult ISIS, who branded the attacks "a miracle".

Now the National Crime Agency (NCA) has reportedly been given new orders amid fears of a Paris-style attack involving terrorists returning from Syria using heavy weaponry.

The Government minister also told the Sunday Times how army regiments outside London are on standby to help the capital in the event of a major coordinated attack.

FORCES: Security services at Eiffel Tower in Paris

A spokeswoman for the NCA said: "The Metropolitan Police are the lead force in London, but we continue to work with our partners both nationally and internationally."

The news comes days after Britain's head of counter terrorism warned the UK was facing an imminent threat of a Paris-style atrocity.

Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner for specialist operations for Metropolitan Police, said: "In recent months we've seen a broadening of that, much more plans to attack Western lifestyle, and obviously the Paris attacks in November.

"Going from that narrow focus on police and military as symbols of the state to something much broader.

"And you see a terrorist group which has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we've seen foiled to date."

A Home Office spokesman said it does not comment on operational matters and matters of national security.