London police take down over 1,000 extremist web pages every week, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has said.
The Commissioner of London Metropolitan Police said the force requests the removal of over 1,000 web pages every week - with 300,000 pages removed in the past 18 months.
Speaking to the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee, Sir Hogan-Howe said the majority of websites were terrorist related but a small minority involved far-right extremism.
He said: "We are taking down about 1,000 sites a week which are extremist in nature. Now most of that is to with terrorist type posting but its not only that. Its also extremes on both sides. There are also right wing sites.
"And where we are legally able to do so, we are asking companies to take them down and they do so."
He said it "made an impact" but "doesn’t stop it unfortunately because the internet is so pervasive".
It comes as the London Assembly’s report on the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, which was published on Thursday, suggested that technology companies need to do more to engage with counter-terrorism police and local communities to crack down on extremism on social media.
It said "the ability to monitor the terrorist threat has reduced because terrorists and criminals had changed their communication tactics and because of encryption technologies that exist on electronic devices".
The report suggested authorities create a map of where extremism online activity was taking place and develop local community resources to provide a "counter-narrative" to extremist ideology.
It comes as David Cameron announced the security services had foiled seven terror plots against the UK in the past six months when speaking to the Today programme a few days after a string of co-ordinated terrorist attacks on Paris last month.
