Police emergency plan: Following the deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem and the recent terrorist attacks, the police are trying to increase their forces in the capital. The problem is that the Jerusalem Police Department lacks many police officers to meet the workload in the city. National Security Minister Ben Gabir and Finance Minister Smotrich today agreed on an emergency plan to quickly recruit hundreds of new police officers to the Jerusalem Police Department.
Recruitment grant and upgrading conditions
In the program, among other things, particularly large recruitment grants were budgeted as well as new pay grades for police officers who agree to work and serve in the capital. The grant designated by the ministers is in the amount of NIS 25,000 as a grant for each police officer who enlists in the Jerusalem district. The second step is, as mentioned, raising the salary for police officers who will move to Jerusalem, a move that can reach thousands of shekels per police officer. Minister Ben Gvir plans to recruit about 400 new policemen when in recent times the police went out to recruit new policemen under the title “Come after me – right now policemen”.
Security forces. Photo archive: Yossi Aloni/FLASH90
Minister Ben Gabir welcomed the conclusion and said that “the recent attacks in Jerusalem and the Mishila operation that we are leading in the east of the city further exacerbate the shortage of police officers from which the Jerusalem district suffers and the urgent need to speed up and increase the recruitment of hundreds more police officers to the district, so that we can defeat terrorism and realize the Our sovereignty is in all of Jerusalem.”
Ben Gvir with Commissioner Shabtai Photo: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90
Ben Gvir’s plans
At the press conference held by Ben Gvir a few weeks ago, Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir together with Commissioner Shabtai presented the planned reform of the Israel Police. Ben Gvir spoke, among other things, about the wave of police layoffs and the meager salaries of the police officers. The plan is supposed to settle exactly the problems Hallu and Ben Gvir addressed the police officers who resigned and said: “I call on all the police officers who have left the police in recent years: return home.”
Watch Mickey Liu burst into the press conference:
Confrontation between MK Miki Levy and Ben Gvir during the press conference where he introduced the National Guard: “You have abandoned the citizens of Israel” Levy slammed Ben Gvir who replied: “You have done two years of damage.”
two years? As I recall, a wall guard was in the Netanyahu government and on the watch of Commissioner Shabtai pic.twitter.com/XpQBvL7BhC— Josh Breiner (@JoshBreiner) January 24, 2023
“I asked for and received pay slips,” said Ben Gvir at the time regarding the police officers’ salaries, “A novice investigator in the police earns 6,429 shekels a month. A detective earns 7,387 shekels, and a novice patrolman earns 7,350 shekels. Our heroic police officers work on Saturdays and holidays, around the clock, and return home with the low amounts these”. Ben Gvir added: “No wonder that in 2021 631 police officers resigned – twice as many as in 2020, and in the last year the number of police officers resigning jumped to 1,030