DIP demands imprisonment for former perpetrator Niso Shaham: "public interest"

After the district court accepted the appeal of the former commissioner and convicted him of fraudulent misconduct and sexual harassment, the lawsuit sought a prison sentence. The police representative at the hearing claimed: "It's really not between him and the police, it's between him and the public's trust in the other police officers and police."

DIP demands imprisonment for former perpetrator Niso Shaham: "public interest"

The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Monday discussed arguments for the punishment of former Nissah Shaham, who was convicted of fraud, misconduct and sexual harassment. The Police Investigation Department (DIP) demanded a prison sentence on the grounds that "in the case before us, a real prison sentence is warranted. Not in service jobs. "

The DIP representative at the hearing, Adv. Ronen Yitzhak, claimed that Shaham "did not in any way redirect what the Magistrate's Court said in the previous round, which acquitted him with most transfers." According to him, "I refer to the report and the assessment of the danger, and each time he claims that it is a" matter between me and the police, "in other words," a matter of two older people "," a matter between me and my family. "It is not between him and the police. And to the public's trust, and between him and all the other police officers and police. This is a governing corruption case. This word appears on its various biases several times in the district court's ruling. "

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Last September, the Tel Aviv District Court accepted the State Attorney's appeal and overturned the Magistrate's Court decision last April. Shaham, it was determined, had relationships with a number of junior police officers and then made various decisions about them. In addition, Shaham was convicted of a sexual harassment offense, as well as his conviction for indecent assault.

"In such an organization, exploiting class and rank to exploit sexual desires has unique hardware," Judge Miriam Diskin wrote at the time. "The huge gap between Shaham and the eight policemen in terms of age, status, authority and conversions is fertile ground for growing weeds of bribery. The offense of breach of trust is designed to prevent exactly such cases."

Diskin also wrote that "a harsh picture of systematic and systematic conduct" emerged from Shaham's trial. He also noted that "all eight police officers were of low rank and junior positions, and some of them even in compulsory service. In this context, even if there is no direct subordinate relationship, these circumstances seem to reduce the police's resistance."

Appeal accepted: They tried to convict Sham of sexual harassment and breach of trust