00:00It was an absolutely horrendous attack on the Jewish community. The Jewish community have put
00:06up with a lot of these types of incidents over the last few years and whilst they're very strong and
00:11resilient they are clearly very frightened and we absolutely understand that and that's why
00:16our counter-terrorism officers are now conducting that investigation. It's also important to say that
00:22we are looking very closely at how we work with the Jewish community, the protective security
00:26measures that we're putting in place across the country but specifically in London we've added
00:32an extra 264 officers to patrolling those Jewish communities. They will see visible firearms
00:39officers patrolling the streets as well as using some of our specialist assets from drones and our
00:45mounted branch to keep those communities safe and in particular working with Jewish schools,
00:50Jewish synagogues to ensure that protective security measures we've got in place are the best they can be.
00:55The latest official figures on hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales showed Jewish
01:02people had the highest rate of religious hate crimes targeted at them of any faith group.
01:09Along with this week's increase in patrols and officers police patrols in London will also
01:15be boosted in the run-up to Passover in early April.
01:20We've certainly seen anti-Semitism increasing significantly. The Community Security Trust will
01:27will tell you you know huge rises in reports to them and we're seeing it through our police work from
01:33hate crime through to that being motivation for terrorist planning and terrorist attacks. It is really
01:41worrying for that community and of course an attack on the Jewish community is attack on the British
01:46community and it's absolutely appalling that anybody in in Britain should feel unsafe and vulnerable to
01:53this type of crime. I think for me it's really important that the Jewish community in particular but
02:00all communities understand the importance with which we take these types of attack whether it's a terrorist
02:09incident or not we absolutely understand the fear it causes and how worried communities are which is why
02:16we put the most specialist assets that we've got to investigate this type of criminality and bring
02:22those individuals to justice. So we recognise the significance of religious festivals, religious dates
02:28and the Jewish community again will be acutely aware of the attack over Yom Kippur in Manchester last year.
02:35As part of that response in London is the additional 264 officers, the firearms officers patrolling
02:42the streets and our specialist assets as well as our work with Jewish schools and synagogues but across
02:47the board my teams review protective security, work with forces across the country to ensure that
02:54protective security measures we've got in place for everybody at the best they can be.
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