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Thursday, August 6, 2020
Indictments against cops decline for 3rd straight year
Oversight of the Israel Police is becoming weaker and weaker, as the Haaretz daily reports that for the third year running, the body that investigates wrongdoing by officers has filed fewer indictments than the previous year.
During the first six months of 2020, the Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID) has only filed 24 indictments against cops, the report says.
It adds that the decline began when Keren Bar-Menachem, the PIID’s current head, entered her job.
The PIID is a body that operates under the Justice Ministry.
“For 24 indictments in six months, there is no need for a department,” Haaretz quotes an unnamed source in the state prosecutor’s office as saying.
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