Home Office to spend £250m on protecting Jewish communities in England and Wales

The brief

More than £250m will be invested by the government to increase policing in Jewish communities after a spate of violent attacks, the Home Office has announced. The funding over the next three years will deliver more than 500 additional officers across England and Wales in Jewish neighbourhoods and around schools, synagogues and community centres, while strengthening national counter-terrorism capabilities. The funding will cover about 300 additional officers in London and 80 in Greater Manchester, while £43m will go to forces serving other areas with significant Jewish populations. The package will continue Project Servator, deploying specialist and plainclothes officers trained to identify suspicious behaviour. The outgoing prime minister, Keir Starmer, said:…