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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
2,000 new police officers, 6 new stations for East Jerusalem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Jerusalem Police announce a massive upgrade to the deployment and availability of officers in East Jerusalem.
The area is being upgraded to a subdistrict, and will be commanded by an officer with an assistant commissioner’s rank.
Jerusalem Police chief Yoram Halevy says the plan includes the opening of six new police stations in villages in the city’s eastern half that have never had a police presence.
Some 2,000 officers will be added to police forces in East Jerusalem.
The first order of business will be to serve Palestinian residents of those sections of the city, Halevy says.
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