£250m for Jewish community policing

Home Office to invest £250m in Jewish community policing

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The Home Office has announced a £250m investment over three years to increase policing in Jewish communities across England and Wales following a series of violent attacks. The funding will deliver more than 500 additional officers in Jewish neighbourhoods and around schools, synagogues, and community centres, while also strengthening national counter-terrorism capabilities. The package includes about 300 additional officers in London and 80 in Greater Manchester, with £43m distributed to forces in seven other areas: Hertfordshire, Essex, Northumbria, Sussex, Thames Valley, West Midlands, and West Yorkshire. The funding will continue Project Servator, deploying specialist and plainclothes officers trained to identify suspicious behaviour. The announcement follows a spate of antisemitic incidents, including an arson attack on ambulances in Golders Green in March, a stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green in April, and a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester last October that killed two people and injured three. The national terror threat level was raised from substantial to severe in May after a series of attacks.

What’s reported

The Home Office will invest more than £250m over three years.

The funding will deliver more than 500 additional officers across England and Wales.

About 300 additional officers will be in London and 80 in Greater Manchester.

£43m will go to forces in seven other areas: Hertfordshire, Essex, Northumbria, Sussex, Thames Valley, West Midlands, and West Yorkshire.

The package continues Project Servator, deploying specialist and plainclothes officers.

Greater Manchester police will receive more than £22m after the terrorist attack at a synagogue in Heaton Park last October.

The national terror threat level was raised from substantial to severe in May.

In March, four ambulances from Hatzola in Golders Green were set on fire in an arson attack.

In April, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green in an attack declared a terrorist incident.

Last October, two people were killed and three injured in a car ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester.