Slippery Slope

Assaf Yekutieli, a policeman charged with abandoning a wounded Palestinian on the side of a road leading to his death, was investigated last week in the internal investigations departmnet regarding charges that he obstructed justice by harassing one of the main witnesses in the trial.

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A police officer was acquitted of the charge of assaulting a security guard due to the negligence of the internal investigations division investigator handling the case.

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The Police Internal Investigations department is investigating Rami Cohen Gvura, a former officer at the National Fraud Investigation Squad, on the suspicion that he passed information to  of the suspects in a police investigation of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Jerusalem Magistrate Court Judge, Haim Liran, cancelled the indictment of a Jerusalem district policeman who was charged with a series of sexual harassmnet incidents because in similar and more serious cases the state asked for disciplinary proceedings, rather than criminal indictment. During the trial it was revealed that the Internal Investigations Division has no written procedures regarding which cases are brought before the court and which are submitted to disciplinary action.

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Tel Aviv Magistrate Court judge, Muki Landman, criticized the conduct of the Police Internal Investigations Division, after it closed the complaint of a man regarding police brutality, without examining it. The man, igor Kuzin, was arrested on the suspicion of stealing a scooter, and claimed that policemen from the Yiftach district abused him using a stun gun during his arrest.

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A pregnant women from the north claims (Hebrew) her companion, a riot policeman, attacked her. According to the woman, “he ripped my shirt, hit my hands and kicked me in the stomach. If he’d missed by a few centimeters, the child would have been crushed”. The policeman was interrogated at the Internal Investigative Division, and was released under limitations.