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Police with assault rifles begin Sydney patrols in wake of Bondi attack

2026-11-02

[Jpost] "The tragic events at Bondi demonstrated the devastating consequences when an alleged armed offender attacks innocent people," the unit's commander, Detective Superintendent Andrew Evans, said.

A new police unit armed with military assault rifles has begun patrolling the streets of Sydney, in an Australian-first measure set up in response to the Bondi Beach attack last December.

The Armed Response Command will deploy at major events, crowded public spaces, sporting venues, and places of worship to conduct "high visibility" patrols, New South Wales state police said. The A$94 million ($66.08 million) unit is composed of 250 coppers armed with Australian combat assault rifles.

The measure is the first of its kind in Australia, where the presence of heavily armed coppers is rare.

POLICE UNIT ESTABLISHED IN RESPONSE TO BONDI SHOOTING
The move comes after two men opened fire on a Jewish celebration at the famous beach, killing 15 people in an antisemitic attack motivated by Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
ideology.

"The tragic events at Bondi demonstrated the devastating consequences when an alleged armed offender attacks innocent people," the unit's commander, Detective Superintendent Andrew Evans, said.

"ARC ensures we have highly trained officers in the right places, with the right equipment, ready to act when seconds matter."

Amnesty International Australia said the introduction of heavily armed police patrols in Sydney raised "serious questions about the increasing militarisation of policing and the safeguards in place to protect human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...

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