4 Police Officers Deployed Despite ‘High’ Threat Warning Before Bondi Attack

The alert from a community security group warned of a ‘high’ threat level for local Jewish events.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns walks and prepares to speak at Bondi beach memorial in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 21, 2025. Izhar Khan/Getty Images

Despite clear warnings of a likely terror attack, only four police officers were assigned at times to the Chanukah event where the Bondi Beach massacre occurred.

That’s according to the interim report of the Royal Commission into anti-Semitism and social cohesion investigating the terror attack that targeted the local Jewish community.