The upheaval that the police are going through following the exposure of the use of the Pegasus spyware, and the establishment of a commission of inquiry or commission of inquiry, must lead to a dramatic change, especially in its specialization as a civilian police force.
And we've all recognized it before.
For decades, Arab society in Israel has been shouting and shouting that the police cross the lines in its conduct in many cases, but this has not moved or interested most of the country's Jewish citizens like the current affair, which is difficult to detach from its organizational culture.
It is clear to everyone that the police have a very important role to play in guarding the civilians, and in many cases the police do their job faithfully.
But it still needs improvement and specialization as the most important civil security organization in the country, and there is an impression that it has developed a culture of covering up affair, and hiding information from the public and its superiors.
Despite the long list of personalities on whose devices the spyware was allegedly planted, it is surprising to see that no information has been revealed about the use of the software towards political, social or religious leaders in the Arab sector.
Several conclusions can be drawn: either the leaders of the Arab public are not relevant in the police's fight against corruption, or the corruption in the Arab local government does not exist, and perhaps the Arab local government is run according to the book, which is unusual in Israel.
The culture instilled in the police in recent years, especially with the appointment of Chief of Staff Roni Alsich, seems to be a culture of an intelligence organization, one that is better suited to the General Security Service, and that in itself requires a deep home inspection.
Alshikh may have sought to instill the culture in which he grew up and worked and worked for at least three decades, but the difference is that in the GSS, surveillance is mostly carried out not on Israeli citizens.
For three decades, the Arab public has argued that the police are not faithfully fulfilling their role in conflicts and the war on crime in the sector, and the greatest proof of this is the more than 1,700 murdered Arabs in the last two decades.
Almost half of the cases have not been solved, and this is where the failure begins.
At important events in the history of relations between the Arab state and the public, the events of October 2000, a state commission of inquiry, the Or Commission, was established, which determined that the police had failed to deal with the incidents - from the high command chain to the last police.
Thirteen Arab civilians were killed during the clashes, the hand on the trigger was light, but all cases were closed.
The police need to be strengthened in order to protect the citizens, the state and democracy, and to exercise governance.
To do this, it must be professional and reliable, follow the rules and establish an internal audit mechanism that will take care of removing from its ranks anyone who helps commit crimes against citizens - otherwise it will lose its purpose.
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