The new spending on security/Denmark

Denmark on Thursday announced a $150 million package to boost police and intelligence services days in a move that followed deadly weekend shootings in Copenhagen but had been prepared in response to deadly Islamist attacks in Paris last month.

Of the 970 million crowns of new spending, 415 million is for collection of information on terrorist threats from abroad. Some 350 million is for security services to monitor and respond to emergencies and to improve information technology.

Opposition parties welcomed the measures. But the said that, since they were launched in reaction to the killings in January of 17 people in Paris, they failed to address concerns arising from last weekend's attacks on a free speech event and a synagogue in Copenhagen in which two people were shot dead.

Denmark announces $150 mln security package after Copenhagen attack