New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies have reportedly gone on high alert after someone re-released a video posted by the Islamic State (IS) in September that urges followers to "rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians."
The threat specifically named the United States, France, Australia and Canada as targets.
While NYPD officials were told in an internal memo to "remain alert and consider tactics at all times while on patrol" in the aftermath of the terror attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a similar bulletin to law enforcement across the country, reported the CNN.
The bulletin and the NYPD memo made it clear that the new message is consistent with previous threats that IS and others, including Al Qaeda, have issued.
