"I do not rule out the possibility of digging another tunnel into one of the prisons outside the prison, so I ordered a thorough inspection of all IPS prisons," Prison Service Commissioner Rav Gondar Kati Perry recently told associates.
It seems that the escape from Gilboa Prison was also a wake-up call for Perry herself, who since the incident has been busy checking supervision in the prisons, especially in the prisons that were built in a similar way to Gilboa Prison.
Also, in separating prisoners and transferring them between prisons and in an engineering inspection of all the buildings.
Perry, who most often served in the IPS in intelligence positions, was surprised not only by the escape but also by what appeared to be the terrorists' negligent conduct from the moment they were released into the tunnel until their escape was officially discovered 3 hours later. No one was waiting for them. She does not know the details that become clear in the GSS investigation, but does not rule out the possibility that the terrorists did not receive cooperation outside the prison because they escaped the escape a day earlier. "They probably intended to embarrass us on New Year's Eve and not the night before," she told associates.
She received the initial message about three hours after the escape, when she asked for more details, there were those who initially thought it was an exercise at all.
She told relatives she expected the prison commander to resign.
"There was a default, I am not here to sweep it, I am here to do everything so that what needs repair will be repaired to the end," she said, in closed conversations with her associates, adding that Gilboa Prison collapsed all procedures and orders: On a personal level, but this is definitely a collection of cases with question marks. "
Cell phone smuggling to prisons
Perry's intention refers, among other things, to the fact that Zakaria Zabeidi was transferred to the escape cell for no justifiable reason, that the team that was supposed to check the floor of the cell where the tunnel shaft was located on a weekly basis did not reveal this.
Also to the fact that the escape was not discovered by a guard placed in the control room overlooking the prison walls on all sides.
The fact that a sleeping Shaham soldier was stationed in the guard tower will also be examined by her later.
It should be emphasized that in 2006, when the IPS became a national prison organization, the military prisons were also transferred to its responsibility.
Now, as the attempt to place Shaham soldiers in the police centers has failed, Perry intends to examine their placement in the centers where responsibility and vigilance are required.
Meanwhile, 14 guards, including the prison commander, testified at the police station.
One jailer was questioned with a warning on suspicion of gross negligence.
However, the announcement of the intention to establish a government commission of inquiry suspended the pace of the police investigation and halted the internal investigation at the IPS.
Perry insists that security prisoners do not run the prison and told her associates to state her position on the issue before the commission.
"So far they have set up committees that have made recommendations, but no one is discussing their implementation," she said.
However, she does not hide the fact that the terrorists in prison hold dozens of phones that are smuggled into them during visits with their families and lawyers.
Attempts to smuggle do not stop, and in the past, smuggling of 24 phones that the smuggler carried on his body was thwarted in Ofer Prison.
It should be noted that in 2016, former Bassel Gats MK from the joint list was arrested while trying to smuggle cell phones to Hamas prisoners in Ketziot Prison.
"This is a sensitive and complex issue, I will answer it before the committee," she promised.
"Relatives claim that she reluctantly rejects recent publications that have tried to blame her and her family and call Pike News allegations that IPS appointments are made for political reasons." Every appointment goes through several incarnations until the minister approves it, "she told associates.
Perry is the third woman appointed to head the organization.
She further said that she has no doubt that the attempts to blame her and her activities stem from the fact that she is a woman.
"I was appointed to the position because I was found worthy of it, but those who called for me to resign did so because I am a woman," she repeats.
According to her, all sorts of "exes" who attacked her and the organization anonymously served in the IPS and they do so out of frustration.
"I know some of them. Red lines have been crossed here. These are officers who served in the organization and do everything to harm me and the organization out of revenge for not promoting them," she told relatives, adding. "But I promise that in my shift they will be repaired."