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Suspicion: Haifa police officers canceled traffic reports in exchange for bribes
According to the two suspects, volunteer police officers offered drivers to contact another person, a city resident, to help them cancel traffic reports in exchange for benefits.
They were arrested on suspicion of acts, and released on restrictive conditions.
Police: "The actions of the volunteers investigated in the DIP are taken seriously"
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Israel Police
Haifa
Yoav Itiel
Sunday, 11 April 2021, 21:29
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Bribery and breach of trust.
The suspicious citizen, on the left (Photo: Walla !, no)
Two volunteer policemen and a resident of Haifa were arrested last week on suspicion of involvement in corruption at the city police station.
According to the suspicion, the two police officers offered drivers whose duty they had registered traffic reports for drunk driving to contact Makram, a 49-year-old resident of the city, to help them cancel the reports, in exchange for benefits.
The two are suspected of bribery and breach of trust.
The Department of Police Investigations (DIP) confirmed this, saying that at the end of the investigation the police were released under restrictive conditions and the citizen was released under house arrest. The citizen's son also served at the station as a police officer in compulsory service, but no suspect was found in the affair.
Police said that upon learning of the case the volunteers were immediately removed from any volunteer activity at the police station.
"We take seriously the suspicions against the volunteers who are currently being investigated in the DIP and are in complete contradiction to the organization's values and the norms of behavior expected of any volunteer in the police," the police said. .
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The citizen is recognized as a person associated with police officers.
Haifa Police Station (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
Despite the police, this case joins quite a few lists of other cases of corruption at the station in Haifa.
About six months ago, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Gary Rabinovich, an intelligence coordinator who served at the station and was convicted of taking bribes from brothel owners in exchange for "police protection" he granted them against raids.
The prosecution appealed the light punishment, the Supreme Court, and on the other hand - Avi Himi representing it appealed his conviction. Discussion is expected in a few months, and meanwhile arrested Rabinovitch detained.
Case corruption Another policeman Sharon Joseph served as coordinator of intelligence with the police and convicted bribery, fraud and breach of trust occurred between the years 2017-2013. in July 2019 the Haifa District Court sentenced Joseph 34 months in prison.
Ronnie Messiah, the former commander of the "Carmel" national traffic Police of the rank of superintendent, sent on 2018 by the Haifa District Court to two years in prison, after for years refraining from revoking driver's licenses of drivers whose license was seized by police officers, in exchange for bribes paid through brokers.The Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
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