NYPD officials and members of the city’s Jewish community headed to 1 Police Plaza Monday afternoon for a briefing to address the department’s plans to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe leading up to the High Holy Days.

The approaching one-year anniversary of the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October is top of mind.

“The acts of October 7 radically shifted our reality. We now live in a time where preparation, vigilance and collaboration make all the difference,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban said.

Police officials say the department plans to add additional security patrols.

“The NYPD will be increasing our presence around synagogues and other sensitive locations. You will see uniformed officers out on patrol,” Caban said.

The briefing comes just days after a Pakistani national in Canada was arrested in connection with a plot to enter the U.S. illegally and attack at a Jewish center in Brooklyn.

NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence Rebecca Weiner commends authorities, including some members of the NYPD’s joint terrorism task force, on the arrest.

“When it became time to mitigate and time to make an arrest, we did it well before he had a chance to appear in the streets of New York City,” Weiner said.

Rabbi Gary Moscowitz, who helps train people at synagogues on safety measures to help prevent attacks, says in addition to the work of the NYPD, people need to educate themselves.

“We are one big Jewish community here. People what they have to do is not to be just more alert, they have to be in training. Every synogague should have at least 20% of the population training for counterterror training,” Rabbi Gary Moscowitz, founder of the Jewish National Guard, who was in attendance, said.

Data from the Anti-Defamation League reports a 140% increase in antisemitic incidents in 2023 compared to 2022.