{"id":568853,"date":"2026-05-06T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:34:08","slug":"met-police-forms-team-after-attacks-on-londons-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568853\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police forms team after attacks on London&#8217;s Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley previously said 300 extra police officers were needed across London as he warned of a growing &#8220;pandemic&#8221; of antisemitism in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new team of &#8220;initially 100 extra officers&#8221;, would involve &#8220;officers who are locally based, understand their communities, and have strong relationships with residents, schools, faith leaders and volunteers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement follows a \u00a325m government funding package for protective policing, of which \u00a318m has been allocated to the Met. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said the money had already helped fund an additional 1,000 officer shifts per week, largely through overtime and redeployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Mark said: &#8220;The creation of a new Community Protection Team of around 100 officers is an important step in strengthening our response to the sustained threats Jewish communities are facing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are working with government and the mayor to ensure the approach we are building can be sustained over time, not just for Jewish communities, but as a model that can support other communities across London when facing elevated risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He welcomed the funding but warned that longer-term investment would be needed to maintain the response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley previously said 300 extra police officers were needed across London as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}