International cooperation

Europe’s police take anti-terror tips from Israel

Israel’s national police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, has revealed that European counter-terror police have been receiving training and information in Jerusalem over the past eight months.

In a breakfast address hosted by the United Synagogue in central London last week, the British-born Superintendent Rosenfeld drew an uncompromising picture of the different approaches to terrorism in Israel and in Europe.

He said: “In the last six to eight months there have been terrorist attacks in France and Germany, and we [in Israel] have had overseas delegations come to Jerusalem to receive information and train with our anti-terrorist unit. They learned how to prevent an attack from taking place and, if it does, how to respond so that there are a minimum number of casualties.”