Minister Ohana's bet is expected to succeed • However, the organization is expected to be shaken • Chief of Staff Cohen's retirement announcement and the accusation that his appointment was not made for foreign reasons speak for themselves • Another commissioner who pays a price is the Jerusalem District Commander,
Clockwise: Saturn, Minister Ohana, Cohen
Photography:
Oren Cohen, Jonathan Shaul, Eyal Margolin / Ginny
If a rabbit is not taken out of the hat, Ohana's bet on Border Police commander Yaakov (Kobi) Shabtai, as his candidate for the post of police commissioner, is likely to succeed.
Also because it is a staffing of a job that has been waiting for her like breathable air, also because it is a surprise drug that not many expected, and mainly because of the person himself: Saturn is considered a humble, professional and valued officer.
Only recently did he stop all training and courses at the Border Police so that all corps officers and officers would watch an interrogation broadcast on the "Makor" program, which presented documentation of Border Police officers accused of robbery and cruel abuse of Palestinians trying to enter Israel.
"We have engraved on our banner to be a quality and professional corps and a leading force that is a home and a source of pride for those who serve in it," he wrote in a letter to his officers, paving his way to the fifth floor at National Headquarters. "As well as the other fighters in the unit, they will determine whether there will be exemplary people and a proper model, as the citizens of Israel expect of us from every fighter in the Border Police."
Pay a personal price
At the same time, as in life itself in the police, there is no good without bad.
After two years without a commander, the organization is now expected to go through a shake-up even though its foundations are planted deep in the ground.
Saturn's appointment was received by the organization with mixed feelings.
Not because of who he is, but because of the circumstances in which he was appointed.
Until the 90th minute, there were still those who believed that justice would win.
However, the announcement of the resignation of the person who replaced Commissioner Motti Cohen in the last two years and the accusation that his appointment was not made for foreign reasons speak for themselves. Although Cohen and Ohana had a working relationship, their personal relations deteriorated and even rose to high tones when police The table.
Archive photo: Gil Kramer, Moshe Ben Simhon
Cohen refused to accept dictates and insisted on not accepting dictates regarding police work.
Another superintendent who pays a personal price is Jerusalem District Commander Doron Yedid, who saw himself as a leading candidate for the position.
Anyone who knows Yedid knows that he does not receive dictates from politicians, but, unlike Cohen, he had to pay a price for making sure, as in all his duties, to maintain law and order during the demonstrations in front of the prime minister's residence in Balfour, while protest leaders did everything to frustrate Now in his non-appointment to the post - as their victory.
In the last two years, the police have been required for difficult and complex tasks.
The treatment of the corona has eroded public confidence in it to the bottom to a point from which one can only ascend.
The strictness or relinquishment that Saturn will behave, as well as the standards and norms he will set for all police officers, will be a touchstone for his success.
Successfully.
