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Jointness with the public (b)

Volunteers as a tool to empower the police

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• 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…

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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.

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It is using both, uniform and non uniform volunteers…

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… In a variety of policing roles

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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.

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the Israel volunteers operating model is unique

Police rank officers &

academy researchers

from all over the world

come to see it working!

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Everyone serves in the army, first in the regular forces and then in the reserves, so volunteering is the Israeli way of life…

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Why Israel Police need volunteers? (1)

1. The police gain a part of the volunteers’ love and

appreciation for the IDF

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Why Israel Police need volunteers? (2)2. The police enjoy their

assistance in enthusiasm.

3. Each one of those

volunteers is an

ambassador of good will

among his community

members.

4. There are always more

tasks than police officers…

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And…

5. The police can always find a selected group of

volunteers, who are better qualified than the

police officers for a specific job…

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History

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The British mandate

Between 1917-1948,

the British ruled the

Land of Israel -

according to the UN

mandate - with army

units & a big police.

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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.

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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

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16So both, both Jewish municipal police Deps., operated volunteers

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Here they are guarding David Ben-Gurion giving a speech in 1944

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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.

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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

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As a result of this action, the IDF relinquished responsibility ofinternal security to the police

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Police commanders, very wisely, chose two community models of maintaining security: the Bomb Squad Div. & the Civil Guard

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The Civil Guard was established in order to channel the efforts of vigilantes who wanted to do something in response to the terrorist attacks

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and direct the volunteers’ activities, not only to security, but to all police

work

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Types of volunteers

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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;

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Volunteers can be classified into three main groups: ‘ordinary’, ‘uniformed’ & ‘special units’

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The ‘ordinary’

volunteers’ are

performing a

routine police

tasks with

police officers

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Uniformed volunteers work in patrol, man the police hotlines, and assist in traffic control

After training, they can do trafficking work independently

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The uniformed volunteers are led by volunteer officers. Some even reach the rank of commander (colonel)

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The last group is the ‘Special Units’ (detectives, rescue, divers etc.):

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While volunteer detectives

work with police officers,

Rescue Units, for

example, work

autonomously & Even the

territorial unit

commanders do not

interfere with their work

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Another example is the critically important disaster- victims’ identification units (ZAKA)

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They consist of only ultra-orthodox individuals, a population which caused the police considerable trouble before

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No free Lunch…(The price of involvement)

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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…

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His volunteers in

Sderot - the most

bombed city in

the last decade,

demonstrated

many weeks,

trying to return

the position

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Police is a dictatorship…

… but the volunteers not always accept that!

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More…

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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 historical problem,

that lasts years without a

solution!

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Uniformed units are especially popular among minorities

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I read about your National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)

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I hope I was helpful

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