Stamford Hill Shomrim helped bring eight convictions for anti-Semitic violence last year – thought to represent more than half the prosecutions for the offense in Britain.
The figures come from Shomrim’s annual stats report, which also shows other crimes for which volunteers helped bring arrests.
It also reveals Shomrim recorded hundreds of suspected anti-Semitic attacks, including the eight that resulted in convictions, and helped find 31 missing people.
In total, Shomrim helped arrest 136 people last year, predominantly in Hackney and neighboring Haringey.
“They have delivered some truly outstanding work and been an excellent support to the police at Hackney,” said borough commander Det Ch Supt Simon Laurence.
“They want to assist with preventing crime and informing us of offenders committing crime as well as bringing to our attention crimes that may have previously gone unreported.”
Although the group have been successful, members of Shomrim are concerned by the hate crime figures. Anti-Semitic incidences in Stamford Hill last year included death threats, a teenager putting lit fireworks into the pockets of Jewish people, and a man yelling to a family, “shame Hitler didn’t kill all you Jews,” before doing a Nazi salute. “The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Stamford Hill is still of deep concern to us,” said Rabbi Herschel Gluck OBE, the group’s president.
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