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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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