More than £250 million (€293.38m) is to be invested into increasing policing in Jewish communities after a spate of violent attacks “so Jewish communities can live and celebrate their faith free from fear,” the UK government has said.
The increased funding will see a surge in police presence, patrols, and protecting security outside synagogues and schools, as well as specialist plain-clothes officers in Jewish communities.
It will deliver more than 500 additional officers across England and Wales, including around 300 additional officers in London and around 80 in Greater Manchester, along with more officers for forces serving other areas with significant Jewish populations.
The package will also continue Project Servator, deploying specialist and plain-clothes officers trained to identify suspicious behaviour and prevent serious crime.
The acquaintance was a attacked by a knife and received injuries, wither they were from a stabbing or slashing seems a pedantic argument to me, the attacker was suffering from a psychotic break and was attacking people of many religions, to cherry-pick parts of his rampage and assign him motives he himself has never espoused is obviously driven by political agendas and intended to push certain narratives, not to show the actual truth of the events