Government pick for next police chief withdraws candidacy

5 December 2018, 7:26 pm

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Maj. Gen. Moshe “Chico” Edri, the government’s choice to be the next Israel Police commissioner, announces he is withdrawing his candidacy for the post.

“Unfortunately there are many forces whose goal was to thwart my candidacy,” Edri writes in a letter to Public Security Gilad Erdan, who nominated him for the position.

The announcement comes after a report said Edri concealed from the vetting committee a meeting he held with the woman who gave him a polygraph test as part of the nomination.

Edri denied the allegations in the report, but it added further headwinds to his candidacy after the nominating panel announced last week it could not recommend him to be police chief.