He said extra officers were being called in to track down the members of the group.

"The department is going to argue that they don't need extra officers," he added.

He said the 6,000 extra officers on the street were enough to deal with any chaos.

Thousands of extra officers from around the country have been assigned to Jerusalem since early this week.

Some 200 extra officers were called in to patrol the streets.

They should have no difficulty in paying for those extra officers.

Now two extra officers have been added during the morning to midnight hours.

We've had extra officers in there all the time, but we're going to step that up now.

But two murders this year were in sight of the extra officers.

The force has already spent £428,000 on extra officers to deal with the second incident in which two children died and 53 people were injured.