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Police have sharpened procedures for police officers: Citizens should not be prevented from documenting enforcement
Following a request from the Public Defender's Office, the Association for Civil Rights and other organizations for "harassment of documentarians", and in light of the growing friction in protest demonstrations, it was made clear to police that photographing themselves is not an offense.
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Liran Levy and Daniel Dolev
Tuesday, 05 January 2021, 20:41
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Police have sharpened procedures for police officers regarding their treatment of civilians documenting enforcement actions in the public space.
This follows a request from the Public Defender's Office and a number of organizations, including the Association for Civil Rights, the Committee Against Torture, the Association of Ethiopians and the Center for Clinical Legal Education at the Hebrew University.
Among other things, it was emphasized that a citizen should not be prevented from filming enforcement actions carried out against him or against another person in the public space, insofar as the act of documenting does not constitute an offense of disturbing a police officer.
According to the procedures, the photo itself does not constitute an offense of disturbing the police officer, except in cases of actual interference, such as attaching the telephone to the police officer's interior or the photo was taken while the photographer was saying things that could agitate the detainee and lead to escalation.
In these cases, where the police believe that this deviation exists, they must contact the citizen and ask him to stop filming before any decision on his detention or arrest.
In some cases, the police may confiscate the camera, but in any case they do not have permission to penetrate the seized telephone, except in accordance with the provisions of the law only.
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The Public Defender's Office and other organizations contacted the police about the matter because they said there was a police harassment of citizens documenting enforcement actions, and in a number of cases the police ordered the citizens to stop taking pictures.
The Public Defender's Office wrote that "we have witnessed an alarming increase in incidents in which citizens documenting a police enforcement incident find themselves, reluctantly, in a direct confrontation with police only because of the documentation of law enforcement action."
It should be noted that the law stipulates that there is no prohibition on a person filming an incident or case where the police carry out enforcement actions, and certainly there is no place to detain or arrest a citizen documenting such an incident.
In recent months, however, with the intensification of demonstrations, there has been much friction between police and protesters against this background.
The Public Defender's Office says that "not only is the prevention of documentation fundamentally wrong and against the law, but it constitutes a serious violation of freedom of expression, and the important public interest of civilian control over police activity."
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Documentation of enforcement actions: Refinement of procedures for police officers
A citizen should not be prevented from filming enforcement actions in the public space, as long as there is no offense of interfering with a police officer
Photography in itself does not constitute a disturbance to a police officer, unless he creates a real disturbance to his work
When a police officer believes that there is a disturbance, he must ask the citizen to stop filming before any decision on detention or detention
In some cases the camera can be caught, but in any case there is no permission to penetrate a telephone
"Photographing police officers while exercising their powers is one of the most effective tools for warning against the misuse of force and it is the right of every person," said Advocate Ann Soccio of the Association for Civil Rights. "Events and revealed illegal phenomena. The police did well to explain to the police the rules of the game in a democratic regime: Police activity in the public sphere must remain transparent and subject to criticism."
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