HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order Friday that requires state agencies to collect more data about gun violence, instructs state police to boost their monitoring of hate groups and white supremacists, and increases efforts to help local police departments respond to threats of mass shootings.

It expands a current program to allow people to use text messages to alert law enforcement to “suspicions of mass shootings” and creates a council of criminal justice experts to study gun violence and provide policy recommendations.

Wolf intended to sign the order earlier, but delayed those plans “out of respect for” six Philadelphia police officers who were shot during a standoff Wednesday. The following day, five people were wounded in a separate shooting in the city.