Suella Braverman said officers should use ‘all available powers’.

Police chiefs have been urged to step up patrols to prevent anti-Jewish disorder following the renewed violence between Hamas and Israel.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has written to forces in England and Wales telling them to “use all available powers to prevent disorder and distress to our communities”.

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Home Secretary, Suella Braverman (centre) and Dame Lynne Owens, Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (left), during a visit to the Community Security Trust in London on Monday (Yui Mok/PA)

She said officers should “act immediately to crack down on criminality, both in our streets and online”.

Her intervention came as pro-Palestinian graffiti was daubed on bridges in an area of London with a prominent Jewish population.

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