Slippery Slope

The police ignored a plea for help from a 16 year old youth who managed to call them while struggling with a 60 year old who attempted to rape him. The police officers even joked with the youth and suggested that he “drink something” with the man.

(Hebrew – Channel 2 news)

Adi Elsin, 30, an inspector and intelligence coordinator in the Population, Immigration and Border Authority’s Oz enforcement unit, was indicted for allegedly assaulting and extorting Indian labor migrants, and in one case he is suspected of performing indecent acts on a female foreign worker. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

A Border police commander was convicted of committing sex offenses to a policewoman who served under his command.

(Hebrew – mynet)

The Department for the Investigation of Police officers has filed an indictment against Meir Pappo, Idan Chekov, and Eliran Dvivo, police volunteers who are suspected of committing a series of robberies of businesses belonging to Eritrean citizens in Tel-Aviv’s old central bus station.

(Hebrew – Ministry of Justice)

A petition filed with the Central District Court claims that complaints by prisoners filed with the complaints officer of the Ministry of Internal Security’s ombudsman, are rejected without examination, and then procedures are opened against the prisoners for filing false complaints.

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Chief of Police, Yohanan Danino, has instructed the police to file indictments even for petty crimes, and examines the performance of various districts according to the number of indictments filed in them, and not according to their substance.

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Two prison guards, Michael Ben David and Shlomi Sevilia, were convicted of attacking a prisoner in their care, Shalom Levi, and sentenced in a bargain plea to two months of community work, a fine and paying NIS 2,000 in compensation to Levi.

(Hebrew)

The Police Internal Investigations Unit arrested two police volunteers on suspicion of robbing an Eritrean citizen who owns a business in South Tel Aviv.

(Hebrew)

The Jerusalem Police has stated that the assault on an Arab woman near the light rail station in the city was racially motivated. According to the Police, the young women suspected of the assault met the woman by chance, asked her if she was an Arab, and when she replied that she was, they assaulted her. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

A police prosecutor assaulted an attorney who approached a courtroom stenographer in order to receive the minutes of the courtroom proceedings.

(Hebrew – Haaretz)