A major police operation to protect Jewish community events had been wound down by the time of the Bondi terror attack that claimed 15 innocent lives, an inquiry has heard.
A royal commission is probing the intelligence and law enforcement response leading up to last year's December 14 mass shooting at the famous Sydney beach.
Operation Shelter was established by NSW Police to protect high-risk Jewish events following a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents after Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023.
But a NSW Police superintendent told the commission on Tuesday the operation had been "de-escalated" to the point resources were no longer available at the time of the Bondi attack.
"Not disbanded, it had (been) reduced or de-escalated," she told the commission, speaking under a pseudonym.
