Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, who will retire from the Met Police next month, said four extreme-right terror plots were disrupted last year.
Ten Islamist-inspired plots have been foiled since March last year, he added.
In a speech made at Policy Exchange, the Met Police's Mr Rowley also warned that far-right extremists are working in similar ways to Islamist extremists.
He said they create intolerance, exploit grievances, and generate distrust of state institutions.
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Last year, the security service MI5 joined the fight against the right-wing terrorist threat.
There are currently more than 600 live investigations and more than 3,000 people of interest at any one time.
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He urged social media companies to do more to combat extremism.
"Many of them tried to argue for some that they simply provide pipes, they have no editorial responsibilities," he said.
"That argument was always in my view nonsense. They've stopped using that argument. They've started to try and take some responsibility.
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