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Jointness with the public (b) Volunteers as a tool to empower the police. The Israel Police volunteers operating model (The Civil Guard) is unique in its characteristics, and the most successful in the world.
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Jointness with the public (b) Volunteers as a tool to empower the police
The Israel Police volunteers operating model (The Civil Guard) is unique in its characteristics, and the most successful in the world. • The Israel Police is using uniform and non-uniform Volunteers, both in independent (without police officers) & non-independent tasks. • However, most police officers do not feel comfortable with volunteers…
The civil Guard is the biggest volunteer organization in Israel! • The Civil Guard operated, at its height of power, operated some 100,000 volunteers • Nowadays there are about 50,000 volunteers.
volunteers Powers • If a police officer is present: Volunteer powers are like a cop; • If he works alone: no "detention authority." • When the volunteer is not on duty, the authority is not valid and is considered an ordinary citizen.
the Israel volunteers operating model is unique Police rank officers & academy researchers from all over the world come to see it working!
Everyone serves in the army, first in the regular forces and then in the reserves, so volunteering is the Israeli way of life… 11
Why Israel Police need volunteers? (1) • The police gain a part of the volunteers’ love and appreciation for the IDF
Why Israel Police need volunteers? (2) • The police enjoy their assistance in enthusiasm. • Each one of those volunteers is an ambassador of good will among his community members. • There are always more tasks than police officers…
And… • The police can always find a selected group of volunteers, who are better qualified than the police officers for a specific job…
The Britishmandate Between 1917-1948, the British ruled the Land of Israel - according to the UN mandate - with army units & a big police.
Jewish municipal police Deps. • There was a Jewish municipal police in Tel Aviv. • in 1947, another municipal police was established in Jerusalem (Jerusalem was planned to be international by the UN, but the Arabs refused & in May 1948, the armies of Egypt, Jorden, Syria & Lebanon invaded Israel.
The history of operating volunteers preceded the establishment of the Israeli police During the British Mandate, when Rommel and the German Army approached EL- Alamein, the Jewish leadership established volunteer unit designed to fight and keep order in major cities
So both, both Jewish municipal police Deps., operated volunteers
Here they are guarding David Ben-Gurion giving a speech in 1944 11
1948: The establishment of Israel Police • Municipal Police deps. of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were merged, as part of the Israel Police; • The volunteers were forgotten until 1974.
May 1974: Terror Strikes! 22 boys and girls were killed in Ma’alot (near the northern border) in a failed rescue operation conducted by the army, after a terrorist group held children hostages in their school
As a result of this action, the IDF relinquished responsibility ofinternal security to the police
Police commanders, very wisely, chose two community models of maintaining security: the Bomb Squad Div. & the Civil Guard
The Civil Guard was established in order to channel the efforts of vigilantes who wanted to do something in response to the terrorist attacks
and direct the volunteers’ activities, not only to security, but to all police work
Who can volunteer? • Youth: freshmen: "personal commitment“; • Youth: juniors and seniors: Volunteering uniform; • Uniform: Ages 18 to 65; • Special units, including volunteers Uniforms: Ages 21 to 60; • Exception: Units of detection (including youth units): Ages 21 to 50;
Volunteers can be classified into three main groups: ‘ordinary’, ‘uniformed’ & ‘special units’
The ‘ordinary’ volunteers’ are performing a routine police tasks with police officers
Uniformed volunteers work in patrol, man the police hotlines, and assist in trafficcontrol After training, they can do trafficking work independently
The uniformed volunteers are led by volunteer officers. Some even reach the rank of commander (colonel)
The last group is the ‘Special Units’ (detectives, rescue, divers etc.):
While volunteer detectives work with police officers, Rescue Units, for example, work autonomously & Even the territorial unit commanders do not interfere with their work
Another example is the critically important disaster- victims’ identification units (ZAKA) 11
They consist of only ultra-orthodox individuals, a population which caused the police considerable trouble before
No free Lunch… (The price of involvement)
The price of being involved… • Volunteers are police officers only part of the time, & they do not always obey the rules: • 2008: the southern district commander was forced to leave his post due to disagreements with the commissioner…
His volunteers in Sderot - the most bombed city in the last decade, demonstrated many weeks, trying to return the position
Police is a dictatorship… … but the volunteers not always accept that!
Despite the huge contribution of volunteers to the police ... • Many police officers do not like the volunteers, and do not want to work with them. • This is a historicalproblem, that lasts years without a solution!
