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Thursday, August 8, 2024
Cops again question Hadera police commander on suspicion of obstruction of justice
Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter
The Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) questions Hadera police chief Superintendent Amit Pollack under caution for a second time this week, this time on suspicion of obstruction of justice after he allegedly lied to investigators when he said his cellphone was broken.
Pollack was questioned under caution by DIPI earlier this week on suspicion of abuse of power, assault, and obstruction of justice over an incident in April when Pollack and other officers violently arrested several people, including senior citizens and IDF veterans, over a planned protest to be staged outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea.
DIPI says that Pollack had told its investigators that his phone was broken so he couldn’t give it to them for the investigation, but when DIPI conducted checks “in accordance with the law and subject to a court order” it transpired that “this claim was apparently incorrect.”
For this reason, DIPI officials arrived at Pollack’s home on Wednesday night to seize his phone.
A statement by Pollack’s lawyer on Wednesday night accused the DIPI officials of arriving at nine o’clock at night, disturbing his children and creating panic in the home.
DIPI rejects this claim, describing it as “baseless.”
A video published by Kan News on Wednesday showed an investigator requesting the phone from Pollack’s wife outside the home and asking her calmly to take the children inside so as not to create a scene.
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