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"Residents beat you and then go complain to the police"

The low wages, the tasks added and especially the attitude of residents who threaten and curse.

"A good day for an inspector is a day when he was not cursed," says Shmuel Albo, chairman of the local authorities' committee of inspectors.

And what is the penalty in the law for assaulting a public servant?

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David Rosenthal

Sunday, 14 November 2021, 16:43

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Friday, about a week ago.

Avner, a parking inspector, vigorously tickles the details of the vehicle parked on the sidewalk.

The owner comes running and shouts "Dude, give it to me, I put the car here for a few seconds to get Mom a blood-thinning medicine."

Too late, the report has been printed. When he came to him the token is unable to cancel it, approached monitor with a menacing look and told him not to confuse "your mother dies, the whole family of the curve you will get cancer," and those more curses subtle.

Even Llfkh accustomed to insults, took A second and a quarter to recover, he pasted the report on the windshield and continued on his way.

Tuesday of this week: A car is parked on the sidewalk and Shaul, a parking inspector, arrives at the scene and begins filling out the report. .

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These are just two of the hundreds of cases that occur every week, in which local authority inspectors receive contemptuous treatment that includes beatings, cursing and insults.

All of these have in recent years become an integral part of their daily routine.

Sometimes these are cases of physical violence, but only the most severe ones are reported in the media.

Samuel Albo, chairman of the local authority inspectors tired. He decided to open his mouth and speak out against residents who have forgotten that the end of the day, inspectors working for them and against the system that abandoned them.

"Nobody day Cursed at him or beat him.

But between us, cursing is the easier part.

At the national level, there is not a month that goes by where inspectors do not encounter physical violence.

The majority do not reach the media.

The inspectors learned to absorb it.

They are no longer interested in it. "Is the

"Very bad. Here is a living example. A few weeks ago a municipal inspector passed near a shopping center in the Agamim neighborhood of Ashkelon. He saw that in front of the center there was a vehicle parked on the sidewalk. Belongs to the vehicle and he pointed to the owner of the vehicle.

The inspector approached him and asked him to move the vehicle, the man replied that he would move, but the inspector demanded that he do so immediately.

The man approached him menacingly, clung to him, waved his hands and told him 'I am not moving'.

The inspector replied: 'So you get a report' and walked towards the vehicle standing on the sidewalk.

The owner of the vehicle began to follow the inspector, taking from a table that was in place a sharp object, approached the inspector and threatened him when he told him 'I want to see you bring a report' ".

More chores, more problems, less money.

Inspectors in Penala during the Corona period.

All those photographed have no connection to the article (Photo: Reuven Castro)

If a policeman had been attacked like that, the attacker would have been handcuffed

This is an offense of assaulting a public servant, no?

"Leave, the inspectors are tired of complaining. You complain to the police about someone and after two weeks you get a message that it was closed due to lack of public interest. No one responds. "It's closed. So they refrain from going to file complaints."

"You see, today a lot of residents are beating you up and straight away are going to complain about you to the police. Then there is a game of who comes first. You are going to complain and you are told that a complaint has already been opened. If you do not have documentation it is word for word. That's right - a lot of cases would have been avoided. "

"We'll start with the fact that we demanded that there be body cameras so that we could document things, but for reasons of economy this is not happening. This is part of the necessary deterrence.

There is no uniformity in the legal envelope.

There are authorities that give an answer and there are authorities that tell you 'Have you been sued?

You'll manage on your own.

Where does such a thing sound?

As an act of mirroring the life of the inspector a complaint is filed against him, and he is left defenseless.

Once you are sued you go into a spin.

Need to take a lawyer.

Inspectors go into financial and mental distress. "

" Yes.

We want more powers and more deterrence.

The problem is that I have to fight both on my own and in the center of local government. They send you to the street and for them that's the end of the story.

They do not understand what we are going through.

"When I go to the local government center and explain to them that I am having problems, there is no answer."

"A role with meaning and no one appreciates"

Sharpen my interest in this deterrence

"A situation arises where you can do nothing without being attached to a police officer. I can demand that the resident present an ID card, but if he refuses - what will you do to him? People evade, run away - what, start running after them? The problem is "That the police wanted to keep the force with them and not disperse it. A situation has arisen where you have no authority and you can do nothing. Beyond dealing with the disorder, without a police officer I am neutralized."

"Wages are very problematic. We are not rewarded and do not meet the requirements for other tasks such as enforcing electric bikes or as in Corona and enforcing regulations. A situation is created where tasks increase but the workforce is small. "The attitude. People run away from this job because it is neither rewarding nor pleasant. You do not hand out flowers on the street."

So what motivates the inspectors to get up in the morning?

"The sense of mission by which they do a meaningful role but no one appreciates it. And it's eroding. There's a lot of dropouts and it's very difficult to recruit."

Adv. Shai Ruda (Photo: Moshe Levy)

The words that Albo says again raise the discussion around the issue of insulting and attacking public employees in Israel and this is a great opportunity to sharpen again, for those who for some reason do not understand, because the law in Israel forbids it. We turned to

, to explain.

"Assault is defined in the Penal Code under section 378, which provides that a person is beaten or used in any other way without his consent, plus any use of any type of substance (gas or any heat source for example) so as to cause the attacker discomfort."

"Section 382A, deals specifically with the issue and defines that in addition to assaulting a public official, anyone who attacks a person who performs a duty imposed on him by law, or provides a service to the public on behalf of an official body of the state, will be convicted and may be sentenced to up to three years in prison. That the assault was carried out against the background of the work of the assailant as a public servant."

In addition, notes Mr. Ruda that offense insulting public officials found under Penal Code Section 288, may result in imprisonment of six months. The law states that any insult, speech, gestures or actions may be considered to be sufficient for a conviction.

" every man or woman with a public function, including observers from various public agencies (inspectors light rail, parking inspectors, inspectors NPA etc.), teachers and educational workers, employees of government agencies, employees of local authorities, police and others. "

"The maximum sentence is 3 years in prison.

The considerations of whether to settle for a fine, compensation or actual imprisonment depend on the severity of the assault and the damage if it is caused. "

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