I've set out in a discussion paper that was presented at the National Forum on Combatting Antisemitism a series of issues which I think have to be addressed.
The first is that police officers have to be acquainted with all of the legal measures that are available to them to combat hate, and police officers are sometimes unaware of those provisions that exist.
The second is that police officers need to understand what forms of hatred exist and, in the context of anti-Semitism, what contemporary anti-Semitism looks like. They have to understand what it means in order to apply the law effectively.
Third, they have to be supported, whether by municipal police service boards or municipalities if they're municipal police forces. In other words, they don't direct the day-to-day decisions made by police, but they have to demonstrate a zero tolerance for anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred. They have to create policies on policing that should be implemented by the police force, and I see some of that not taking place right across the land.
