New 100-strong Met unit to protect Jewish people in London

Police at the scene of the Golders Green stabbing (Picture: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

An extra 100 police officers are being deployed across London’s Jewish communities as more anti-semitic attacks are feared.

The Metropolitan Police said the new community protection team will help ‘face some of the highest levels of hate crime alongside significant terrorist and hostile state threats’.

This includes the double stabbing in Golders Green, which is being treated as an act of terrorism, and arson attacks on volunteer Jewish ambulances and an Octobe...