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The police space that puts women at the forefront of fighting crime

The Ayalon area in the Tel Aviv district is a clear example of the increase in the number of senior police officers.

In honor of Women's Day, six headquarters report on women's difficulty climbing the ladder, attitudes from colleagues and suspects, gender reassignment and how to work in a 'male' environment.

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Monday, 08 March 2021, 17:00

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The senior officers of the Ayalon area (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

In the last five years, there has been an increase of more than 30% in the number of senior officers in the Israel Police.

Although we have not yet seen an officer run for the position of first commissioner, the number of women in key positions continues to grow.

The Ayalon area in the Tel Aviv district is a clear example of this. Most of the central command positions in the area are staffed by women, who are at the forefront of fighting crime. The demographic area of ​​the cities of Bat Yam, Holon and Azor. Only recently have several headline investigations been conducted in the area, including the placement of the grenade in the family home of football player Omar Atzili, the case of toddler abuse at a home in Holon, .

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"The woman is stopped at every birth."

Runes (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

"A woman is arrested during every pregnancy and every birth, unlike a man who returns to work," says

Superintendent Tal Runes

, an investigating officer and lawyer in the Ayalon area.

"Women need to be much more determined and focused if they want to move forward so there is tremendous importance to commanders. In recent years I have won commanders who did not look at my office hours but rather rated me net according to my productivity."

Runes adds that "I have two important roles in the police, for me I see it as a mission and doing justice and something good I can do, and there is also my parental role which is no less important and it is very challenging this combination of the two."

"There are different dynamics between women, there are no frictions and intrigues."

Ashkenazi (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Superintendent Anat Ashkenazi

, who heads the police and community bureau in the Ayalon area and commands the patrol and municipal policing units, describes that "in the last round of appointments, the area took on a more feminine character when officers were appointed to key positions."

According to Ashkenazi, "There are different dynamics between women, there are no frictions and intrigues. There are professional arguments but there is something flowing in the dynamics at work between us and I feel the difference. Most of my years in the police I worked with men. The female dynamics are different, more relaxed With men. "

Commanded by 11 female and male researchers.

Bar Yehuda Etzion (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Superintendent Zaharira Bar Yehuda Etzion

serves as head of the family division in the Ayalon area, which deals with serious offenses of domestic violence, violence against the helpless and sexual offenses.

She has been in office for the past six months, and has served 11 years in the police force.

His deputy is a man and she and her command team number 11 investigators.

"I have two children and when I am at home I disconnect myself from the things I am exposed to in the police," she says.

"I deal net with evidence and in what lies before me, there is no other choice. In cases of sex offenses and offenses against the helpless I will make the tremendous effort, where I think it is necessary, to exhaust the case, to which I direct the impact of the hard cases that come to me. I We work closely with victims' assistance centers and victims of sexual assault, we are in weekly contact. "

Regarding the treatment of sexual offenses, Bar Yehuda Etzion says, "I receive amazing feedback from the field. They have felt a change since I took office. I was told that I feel there is more attention to the issue, desire and effort beyond researching the truth and evidence of deciphering successes in sexual offense cases. "Sure, it's inevitable but I really like what I do, I probably could not work an office job from 8:00 to 17:00."

Work without ego

Superintendent Moran Haddad

, head of the crimes department in the Ayalon area, describes the changes that the police have undergone in recent years in the field of gender equality.

"The police have undergone a significant change. We are seeing more and more women in key positions. We had a space headquarters here, there are police station headquarters, what was not in the past and today we see more."

The Crimes Department deals with serious offenses of robbery, shootings and drugs, and Haddad has served as head of the department for three years.

"My interaction with the suspects as a woman is a little different," she admits.

"There are occasional strange looks at me but there were also cases where it played in my favor. In one of them in a violent robbery incident of an elderly man who went out shopping to sit, a suspect came and hit him terribly. This incident really stuck in my memory. I think when we get to criminal scenes there is something else we "Work without ego, tenderness, emotional intelligence. The elderly man did not want to complain and refused to cooperate with us. I used all my abilities to build trust with him and accompany him until he filed a complaint that would lead to the execution of the criminal who robbed him."

"There are occasional strange looks at me."

Haddad (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

On the combination of family life and demanding work in the police, Haddad says that "the incoming district commander, Ami Eshed, talked about balancing family and work, promoting women and making adjustments to positions so that work can be combined with full-time work as a mother. I am a mother of two small children. "Our space does not pass in the evening and checks who went home early, no one stands here with a stopwatch when we arrive and when we leave. There is flexibility and we are trusted."

"The suspects are looking at rank, not gender."

Lubin (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Superintendent Stav Lubin

is responsible in the Ayalon area for the area of ​​serious violent offenses.

"I do not feel any difference in the attitude of suspects towards me as a woman, in my opinion looking at rank more than gender."

Among other things, Lubin interrogated the man from Bat Yam who documented the abuse of his dog in a serious manner.

"I love animals and I have a dog at home, it met me on a personal level," she shares.

"A dog is a helpless creature and we treat these cases very severely. I am a mother to children, I am perhaps more exposed than anyone to the violence that rages on the street. My children are small, ten and five years old. When they were younger and did not talk and we investigated the stories of abuses "It definitely caught my eye. Today they are bigger and can talk and tell so I am more relaxed."

On the macho image that the Israel Police has had for many years, Lubin says that "it is still a male organization but the police value women who have the ability and motivation to move forward and contribute, and I feel my work environment is safe. I have never encountered sexual harassment or sexist comments."

Runes joins Lubin's remarks and says that "I have never been sexually harassed by the police nor have I heard or seen anyone from the immediate area working with me who has been harassed."

"There's something else in the interaction between women."

Avital (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Superintendent Anat Avital serves as the head of a special investigation team entrusted with investigations of serious crime, such as murder or severe violence, in the Ayalon area.

Avital headed the investigation team that deciphered the laying of the grenade in Noble's parents' home and the extortion attempts they made on him.

All the murders that have taken place in the Ayalon area in the past year have passed under her hands.

"In the past, I handled serious rape cases in one of which the woman was permanently disabled," says Avital.

"They raped her and committed indecent acts on her. This woman did not want to file a complaint in any way. It is very difficult to conduct such an arrest case without the complainant's cooperation, she was very ashamed to complain and tried to suppress what she went through. It was clear to me "Circle and bring to justice those who harmed her. I realized that as the head of the investigation team I need to talk to the victim and convince her to cooperate with us. I gave her my phone and accompanied her until she was persuaded to complain. There is something else in the interaction between women."

"You would not want to encounter officers when they have to be rigid"

Superintendent Yagel Fink, commander of the Ayalon area police, says that the gender identity of the officers does not play a role for him.

According to Fink, "As long as the work is done I do not care exactly when the officer arrives or leaves. Sometimes I realize that officers are defensive when I ask how they arrive in the morning, and I explained that on the contrary, I do not want their children to have a mother in the morning. I do not stand with the stopwatch. "

Fink agrees that "women have less ego, it's easier to work with them. You wouldn't want to run into these officers when they have to be tough. They have amazing abilities to crack detainees and they have outstanding accomplishments."

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