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A senior police official reveals the price of the fight against illegal weapons, accusing: "The forgiveness of the courts costs billions"

A senior police officer estimates in a conversation with Walla!

That the cost of an operation to locate illegal weapons could reach a quarter of a million shekels, and accuses that because of the courts' lenient punishment policy - the criminals return to the streets quickly and are not deterred at all.

4,732 have been arrested on suspicion of illegal weapons offenses and shootings since the beginning of 2021

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Sunday, 10 October 2021, 16:50 Updated: 16:51

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In the video: Documentation of a night operation by the Yoav unit of the police to eradicate crime in the south (Photo: Shai Makhlouf, Editing: Lear Spiegler)

The police are today (Sunday) attacking the lenient punishment for criminals, revealing the price of the fight to seize illegal weapons.

A senior police official estimated in a conversation with Walla!

Because every seizure of a rifle or pistol costs the police budget, which comes from the state coffers, about a quarter of a million shekels.

Roughly speaking, the police have invested about half a billion shekels since the beginning of 2021 in the seizure of weapons.

"Every seizure of a rifle or pistol costs the police budget about a quarter of a million shekels, which includes the working hours of the police, fuel, the use of means and technologies, intelligence and more," the senior source said.

"When the public hears that a gun has been seized, they do not imagine the amount of resources we invest from gathering intelligence and preparing for the search operation to filing the indictment."

Weapons seized by the police (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

"The biggest costs are the costs of the perpetrators themselves who are sometimes involved in each of the hundreds of policemen that have to go into the heart of an Arab village with all the consequences and threats that could be," the source added. "We conduct tens of thousands of searches a year, most of them without positive results. The criminals are very sophisticated in their ability to clear weapons and we do not always succeed in locating them."

The police accuse that even in cases where the police succeed in arresting a suspect and linking him with evidence to an illegal weapon, the courts use lenient punishment, and according to the source, in 70% of cases the offenders are sentenced to less than a year in prison.

In many other cases the offenders are sent to service jobs, house arrests or individual weeks in jail.

After extensive police investment, deployment of large forces, lengthy planning and large financial outlay - the weapons offenders return to the streets very quickly, uninhibited, and once again possess weapons. " ", Say the police.

More on Walla!

Hundreds of policemen, helicopters and dogs, from house to house: the huge operation to eradicate crime in the Negev

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The police have recently expressed great frustration in this regard, and in Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai's latest statement he said that a minimum sentence of one year imprisonment should be imposed and that the criminals should be fined tens of thousands of shekels. can help eliminate crime in Arab society.

police data indicate that in 2021 there is an increase of 32% in the number of indictments for offenses of weapons, as well as a 30% increase in arrests until the end of proceedings for leniency in relation to last year.

In all, 4,732 people were arrested on suspicion of illegal and firearms offenses during this period, and at least 430 pistols, 120 submachine guns, 400 rifles of various types, hundreds of grenades, parts of weapons, explosives and explosives and thousands of ammunition were seized.

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