Minister for Policing and Crime ( ): Recent attacks on our Jewish
communities are completely unacceptable. An attack on our Jewish
community is an attack on us all, and we must take the safety of
our Jewish community very seriously. Jewish people must feel safe
and Government will strain every sinew to ensure that is the
case.
The rise in antisemitism is a scourge on our society. In the year
to March 2025, there were 2,873 religious hate crimes against
Jewish people (106 per 10,000 population), the highest proportion
for any group by some distance. In the Community Security Trust's
(CST) recent Antisemitic Incidents Report, for the first time
ever, the CST recorded over 200 cases of anti-Jewish hate in
every calendar month in 2025. Shockingly, the CST also found that
the terror attacks in Heaton Park and Bondi Beach triggered
immediate spikes in antisemitism, ranging from face-to-face
taunting to antisemitic social media posts. The Government has
heard loud and clear the experiences of Jewish people in our
communities in recent weeks and months.
While tackling this hatred requires a whole of government
response and a whole of society response, the police have an
important role to play. This Government has already invested an
additional £25 million into policing patrols and protective
security to support Jewish communities.
I can also confirm today that we are providing additional funding
of £251.1 million for the police to tackle antisemitism in our
communities over the next three years. Alongside the investment
in protective security, this brings total funding for protecting
Jewish communities to £309.5 million.
This will fund:
- A recognisable, permanent policing presence in key Jewish
communities across the country.
- A national surge capacity to ensure all Jewish communities,
wherever they live, can be protected.
- Stronger national coordination and specialised capabilities
to deliver a consistent approach, with specified funding to
deliver antisemitism training for all police officers in England
and Wales and a centralised online hate crime investigations hub.
- Additional protective security and other capabilities to be
deployed by Counter Terrorism Policing, in recognition of the
threat from state actors and proxies to Jewish communities.
The majority of British Jews in England and Wales live in London
with the highest concentration of synagogues and Jewish schools
in the country, and this community has faced significant threat
in recent months. We are therefore providing £85.8 million to the
Metropolitan Police Service to fund around 300 officers to
support increased policing in Jewish communities. They will
increase specialised capabilities, strengthen intelligence,
investigative and coordination functions all of which will allow
for better operational deployment in response to specific
threats. This is in addition to the £18 million uplift the
Government announced in April.
A further £65.9 million will go to forces outside of London with
a significant Jewish population to provide a permanent presence
in Jewish communities and ensure they are equipped to provide the
communities with the support they need. Of this funding, £22.5
million will be provided to Greater Manchester Police to sustain
the increase in policing presence in response to the tragic
attack in Heaton Park last year. £43.4 million will be
distributed across seven other forces with significant Jewish
communities: Hertfordshire, Essex, Northumbria, Sussex, Thames
Valley, West Midlands and West Yorkshire.
In recognition of the need to ensure consistency of policing
responses to antisemitism across England and Wales, £40.8 million
will be provided to support national policing coordination and
capabilities. Jewish people and communities should feel confident
that antisemitic crimes will face the full force of the law
wherever they live. We will fund antisemitism training for
officers in England and Wales and ensure surge resources are
available to all forces to protect Jewish communities, during
events or times of increased threat. This is in addition to the
£2 million uplift the Government announced in April.
Finally, counter-terrorism policing will receive a further £58.6
million over the three-year period to provide further security to
vulnerable communities, places and people.
Our Jewish community is an integral part of this country. To be
antisemitic is to be anti-British. We will continue to do
everything in our power to protect Jewish people, communities and
places, and to bring those who seek to cause them harm to
justice. This additional funding aims to establish a sustained
police presence in Jewish communities, provide a national
response to the threat of antisemitism, and most importantly
reassure Jewish communities across the country at a time of great
fear and concern.
