More than 200 extra police officers deployed in wake of ambulance arson attack

Evening Standard

More than 200 extra officers will be deployed to protect Jewish communities in the wake of the arson attack on four charity ambulances, the head of UK counter-terrorism policing has said.Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor told the Press Association that the Met will also use specialist teams including firearms, the mounted branch and drones in the run up to Passover.

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00:05It was an absolutely horrendous attack on the Jewish community. The Jewish community

00:11have put up with a lot of these types of incidents over the last few years and

00:16whilst they're very strong and resilient they are clearly very frightened and we

00:20absolutely understand that and that's why our counter-terrorism officers are

00:24now conducting that investigation. It's also important to say that we are

00:28looking very closely at how we work with the Jewish community, the protective

00:32security measures that we're putting in place across the country but

00:36specifically in London we've added an extra 264 officers to patrolling those

00:42Jewish communities. They will see visible firearms officers patrolling the streets

00:47as well as using some of our specialist assets from drones and our mounted branch

00:51to keep those communities safe and in particular working with Jewish schools,

00:55Jewish synagogues to ensure that protective security measures we've got in

00:59place are the best they can be.

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