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The prosecution has opened a criminal investigation against (retired) Sgt. the policenews News in Israel Criminal news and law The former head of the Traffic Claims Department will be questioned on suspicion of obstruction of justice The prosecution has opened a criminal investigation against (retired) Sgt. the police Tags DIP Israel Police Speed ​​cameras Daniel Dolev Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 21:17 Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Share in general Share in general Share o...


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The former head of the Traffic Claims Department will be questioned on suspicion of obstruction of justice

The prosecution has opened a criminal investigation against (retired) Sgt. the police

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Daniel Dolev

Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 21:17

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    The State Attorney's Office has decided to open a criminal investigation against Sergeant Sarit Phillipson, former head of the Israel Police Traffic Claims Department. Phillipson is suspected of disrupting legal proceedings and failing to fulfill an official duty, , A former police prosecutor who has since left the police.

    The person who recommended the investigation is the commissioner of criticism of the prosecution, retired judge David Rosen, who examined a complaint on the subject. About a year and a half ago, Rosen found that Phillipson and the prosecutor had deliberately concealed material facts in the case from the other side and from the court, and recommended that Phillipson be fired and open an investigation against the two. The materials of the investigation in the case were examined by DIP, which also recommended a criminal investigation - and today (Wednesday) the Deputy State Attorney, Nurit Littman, decided to accept the recommendation and ordered that an investigation be opened.

    Sen. Sarit Phillipson (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

    Following a complaint by attorney Tomer Gonen, Rosen examined the conduct of the police prosecution in the case. He wrote that a representative of the Standards Institute testified in court that he was present at ten trials in the Netherlands regarding the reliability of speed cameras, It turned out that a representative of the Standards Institute lied and that he or any other representative of the Standards Institute did not attend the trials he testified at all, and in fact no trials took place in the Netherlands.The

    prosecutors in the case believed that the new discovery should be transferred "The prosecution, with the full knowledge and guidance of the senior officer (Lt. Col. Phillipson), chose to act differently," Rosen wrote. "The prosecution has in fact concealed for about a year and a half the new information brought before it - during the period in which the court hearings continued - until the State Attorney's Office intervened in the matter."

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    Subsequently, it was written in the decision that the police prosecutor argued in a court hearing that even bringing in representatives from the Netherlands would not be able to shed light on the testimony of a representative of the Standards Institute. According to Rosen, this statement was made even though it was clear that bringing representatives from the Netherlands to testify would have revealed that no experiments had been conducted there at all, and certainly no representative of the Standards Institute had participated in them.

    The senior at the Standards Institute is Ilan Carmit, a former deputy director of the institute. In March, the Haifa District Attorney's Office (Criminal) informed him that his prosecution was being considered subject to a hearing due to his part in the case. He is suspected of obstruction of justice and perjury.

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