Scenarios similar to the deadly terror attacks in Paris will be included in future counter-terrorism exercises by the police and security services, Downing Street has said.
David Cameron has met intelligence and security chiefs to discuss whether further measures are needed to deal with the threat of terror attacks in Britain after 17 people were killed in the French capital.
Following the talks, a Number 10 spokesman said it had been agreed that future exercises, which take place on a regular basis, should seek to learn from events in France.
Mr Cameron, who joined French President Francois Hollande and world leaders for a rally in Paris to remember the victims, stressed the need for the police to be able to call on military help if there is a major emergency.
The PM also emphasised the importance of international co-operation to stop the cross-border smuggling of firearms and other weapons.
Speaking to Sky News following the march on Sunday, Mr Cameron said it was necessary to "ask ourselves how we would respond to this sort of situation" in Britain.
He added: "In a free country, there's never any way you can guarantee against an attack and the damage an attack can do.
"But what we do have in Britain is brilliant security and intelligence services, very strong counter-terrorism policing, and a way of coordinating the work that they do with special forces and others to make sure that when these things happen, we respond in the best way we possibly can."
The attacks have also sparked a debate about whether UK police officers should be routinely armed.
Norman Brennan, a retired police officer, told Sky News: "It's not really a choice of whether police officers, certainly frontline officers, want to be armed. The time has really come where they should be armed.
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