Being arrested four times in two weeks is surely a record, and repeat offender Francis Achille, 64, holds that dubious distinction. According to London’s Shomrim, he was just arrested for the fourth time in two weeks for threatening Jewish children with a baton outside a synagogue.

Shomrim have repeatedly detained Achille for violating his bail conditions, such as not going within 100 meters (about 300 feet) of any synagogue.

“Gets locked up, comes out and reoffends, constantly breaching bail conditions and his Criminal Behaviour Order,” Shomrim posted on X.

“Local residents continue to raise concerns regarding the repeated offending and breaches,” the volunteer patrol group added.

Achille’s latest arrest in the London borough of Hackney came after threatening Jewish children with a stick. The Stamford Hill Shomrim have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police to detain Achille amid rising concern in the Jewish community over his repeated offenses.

The arrest comes on the heels of the sentencing of another man, Tavius Jean Charles, for death threats against Jews. But the larger context of attacks against Jews across London has the Jewish community on edge. Multiple synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses have been subjected to arson attacks, and a stabbing in the London neighborhood of Golders Green injured two Jewish men last month.

A team of 100 officers has been dispatched to patrol Jewish neighborhoods and combat hate crimes following a warning from Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley.

Earlier this month, he said that the rise in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in London is “an appalling state of affairs.”

“If you overlay three things now — hate crime, terrorism and hostile state activity — you add all that together, that combined effect with that building of ideology online, that is really dangerous and troubling,” he said. “And Jewish communities feel that, and you can see that in how they talk, how it’s making them change their lives.”

Rowley called for the deployment of an additional 300 police officers to protect Jewish communities in the area, saying that the problem isn’t relegated to “a few racist idiots,” but is “something that is more embedded in society that isn’t being challenged.”

“There’s too much licensing of it in public debate,” he declared, giving voice to a sentiment shared by many Jewish advocates.