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"It is not clear who the police are protecting": The policewoman accused of fabricating reports has not yet been fired

In February, an indictment was filed against Ravit Emanuel for abuse of police power.

Findings that reached Walla!

It is alleged that from the very beginning, she acted unreliably, was prosecuted again and again, and even received NIS 200,000 for having sex with a volunteer for years.

"Exploiting personal adversity in manipulations"

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Tuesday, 04 May 2021, 15:23

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Documentation of reporting (Ashdod Municipality)

Policewoman Ravit Emanuel was charged in February with disrupting court proceedings and abusing police force, after recording false traffic reports for drivers in the Ashdod area. But despite the indictment against her, despite her problematic past in office and contrary to the police's standing orders - Emanuel still serves in the police and comes into direct and daily contact with civilians. A hearing on her case will take place in the coming weeks, after which a decision will be made as usual.

To Walla! Many findings have arrived that indicate the poor functioning of the policewoman, even before she became entangled in the Fabrock case, which was revealed in Walla! Vehicle through attorney Eran Damari who represented the drivers who complained against Emanuel. Among other things, it appears that in the past it was recommended to end her service in the police at the beginning of her journey, due to reliability and behavioral problems. Despite the harsh recommendations, the policewoman continues to serve in the police these days. After the serious indictment was filed against her.

"By any standard, any other Israeli police officer with such a case would have been fired from the police a long time ago. On far fewer occasions, police officers were fired," said a source well acquainted with Emanuel's past with the police.

Another source said that "it is not clear who in the police is so protective of her and why. There are many policemen with personal problems and with such and such matters who function in an inspiring way, sometimes she seems to exploit personal distress manipulatively."

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Despite the serious indictment, she still serves in the police force.

Emanuel (Photo: Walla !, Facebook)

Emanuel was recruited to the police in 2013 in an unusual manner, on the orders of the then district commander, Yoram Halevi. In the evaluation committee during the "Certified Ranger" course, it was determined that "sometimes the credibility of its reports towards the faculty and its members of the department is in doubt." The assessment report also stated that "her self-control is low, she does not take responsibility for her actions." During the course she even went through a number of warning calls due to multiple disciplinary offenses, and eventually she was even expelled from the course and had to repeat it again.

It also appears that between the years 2018-2015, the policewoman used to have sex with a police volunteer, and in return allegedly sought financial assistance and gifts. In his affidavit, the volunteer said that Emanuel made sure that they were placed together regularly in those years.

To Walla!

Correspondence arrived between the two.

"You take care of me my life and I will take care of you too", Emanuel wrote to the volunteer, who wrote in response "Well, I will try to take care of you, I just have a harder time with the bank, do not forget I am limited, until noon there will be an answer! Hope not to disappoint you, who like me I want you to have fun. "

Emanuel replied to him: "Atonement think of something please, brass, I will compensate you a huge compensation."

From the police's standing orders regarding administrative disciplinary measures (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

According to the findings, what began as a request to buy her cigarettes and drinks at his own expense - very quickly became demands for increasing sums of money, culminating in 20,000 shekels, which accumulated to a total of about 200,000 shekels. Along the way she promised him that she would return the money to him when she received her prosecution money against a senior officer, who she claimed sexually harassed her. In response to his attempts to get away from her, the policewoman sent him pictures of herself in a bikini and even naked to her cell phone.

Beyond the money extortion, the policewoman threatened to complain that he had sexually harassed her and other things, in order to prevent him from complaining to her commanders about the fabricated reports she had written to the drivers. His affidavit even reveals more of her ways of doing things and his attempts to confront her on the mobile after these acts.

Very serious findings about the unreliability with which Emanuel was conducted also arose as part of an exercise carried out for a patrol car with the policewoman in 2017. Due to this, it was decided to prosecute him in March of that year.

Shimon Portal, who was in charge of the Ashdod station at the time, sentenced her for making a false statement, but the punishment she received amounted to only a severe reprimand.

"Abnormal disciplinary profile"

In April 2017, she conducted an interview with the station commander Portal, at the end of which he recommended terminating her service with the police with an emphasis on incidents of unreliability. Even in this case, the recommendation was not accepted and she continued to serve in the police. A year later, the station commander informed her that he was transferring her from a traffic position to a pedestrian patrol position, in part following citizen complaints about false traffic report records.

In December 2018, at the conclusion of an evaluation committee made for her by the Deputy District Commander, a decision was made not to extend her service in the police and dismissed from the corps. The deputy district commander noted, "Throughout my time in the service of a soldier as a commander I have not encountered such a disciplinary profile, it is an exceptional disciplinary profile."

At the same time, in 2018, an affair was revealed that led to the filing of an indictment against it only about three months ago.

As a traffic police officer, Emanuel would locate drivers traveling alone in the vehicle, stopping them at least five hundred yards and even miles from the place of "committing the offense", creating a situation where it would be difficult for the driver to prove that the offense did not occur at all.

It also prevented a situation in which witnesses who watched the incident could tell about the circumstances of the "offense" that was not committed.

Despite all this, the policewoman was not fired from the police.

Police sources involved in the details said that "when analyzing all the unusual incidents in which she was involved, starting with the police course, one can identify a recurring pattern, extreme unreliability, blaming others. 'Promises to learn lessons and this will not happen again', and so on. God forbid every time again. "

"I will not cease until the case with the policewoman is exhausted," Adv. Damari (Photo: PR)

Leaving it in line with the organization is in conflict with the procedure "Taking administrative measures against a police officer involved in the offense", which was included in the national headquarters orders, and states that unequivocal and independent evidence was found to establish the suspicion that a police officer committed a disgraceful offense. The 'escape hatch' that allows the police to stay in the organization relies on another clause in the procedure, which states that "a competent body may not fire the police officer for special reasons to be registered."

Advocate Damari, an expert in traffic law who revealed the policewoman's deeds, told Walla! That "the Israeli police should be responsible for recording the fabricated reports by the policewoman. If she had acted against her already at a stage when complaints had first accumulated regarding her conduct and the manner in which she was being enforced, we would not have reached the day when hundreds of Ashdod residents fall victim to her actions.

"I will not stop until the police officer is executed and all the reports she has filed will be canceled and the drivers will be compensated for the full damage caused to them. "

The Israel Police stated in response that "the case of the policewoman is currently being considered in the disciplinary department for consideration of continuing her service in the corps following the indictment filed against her recently. We note that about a year ago the policewoman's continued service was considered for dysfunction, which at the end of the procedure. "In her privacy, it was decided to give the policewoman a year of experience under notice of dismissal. At the time of making this decision, there was no indictment against her."

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