Dozens of criminal cases closed due to Israel Police negligence in West Bank
and the bottom line:
Complaints by settlers, Palestinians are handled with equal incompetence
Some details
The police's Shai District, which is responsible for the West Bank, consistently fails to conduct even the most basic investigatory actions, such as taking fingerprints, checking alibis, questioning witnesses and conducting identification line-ups. As a result, case after case - against settlers and Palestinians alike - is either closed without going to trial or thrown out of court...
...In another recent case, Mustafa Oudeh of Walaja was arrested on suspicion of shoving a border policeman off a cliff and causing him to break his leg. As evidence, police submitted footage confiscated from the camera of a foreign volunteer who was present at the scene. But it turned out police didn't bother viewing the footage before submitting it as evidence - and when the judge viewed it during Oudeh's remand hearing, he discovered that it actually showed Oudeh flat on his back, and the border policeman pushing him until both fell down the cliff.
In March, Yifat Alkoby of Kiryat Arba was acquitted of assaulting a Palestinian when it turned out that instead of asking the victim to pick his assailant out of a line-up, police had simply ordered a child to point to a picture of Alkoby and identify her as the culprit...
...And sometimes, the police's conduct is simply farcical - as when two Jewish minors were arrested last week for sneaking into Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, which is off-limits to Israelis except for specially arranged group visits. Their parents came to the Ariel police station and signed the necessary forms to get the boys released. But the station's fax machine was broken, and police insisted the boys couldn't be freed until it was fixed, so the forms could be faxed to the proper location. It took a lawyer's intervention to persuade them that the boys shouldn't be kept in jail until the fax was repaired...
The police are supervised by the Ministry for Internal Security.
When does he resign?
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