Following the suspicion of the rape of a female guard by a security prisoner, Defense Minister Benny Gantz sent a letter this evening (Monday) to Minister of Internal Security Amr Bar Lev with a demand to immediately prohibit compulsory maids in the Shavas from staying with security prisoners, until a thorough and thorough investigation of the suspicions and The nature of the service.
Gantz wrote that he intends to re-examine the continued allocation of mandatory officers in the prison service, due to the fact that their job is to deal directly with security prisoners.
"I believe that a service that involves dealing with security prisoners requires adequate and comprehensive training, and an in-depth acquaintance with the framework of the prison service, therefore it is necessary to consider whether this role should be performed by mandatory employees, assigned outside the IDF's SDF," wrote Gantz , and added: "It is necessary to examine under what conditions such a service can be held, and what are the conditions to maintain their safety and physical well-being."
to examine the assignment of mandatory servants.
Internal Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev, photo: Gideon Markovich
In conclusion, he wrote: "We are committed to acting together and doing everything possible to ensure the personal safety of all maids and servants, regardless of who they are. Accordingly, I instructed the professional officials in the Ministry of Defense and the IDF to examine, together with the officials of the Ministry of Internal Security, the order allowing the assignment of mandatory servants in the service of the prisons".
"The decision of the Minister of Defense is an immediate and necessary solution, but it is sad that we have reached a situation where women have to disappear from the area in order not to be harmed.
We will not settle for anything less than an independent external investigative committee to look into the affair."
The chairman of Naamat, Hagit Par, said: "The decision is an immediate and necessary solution, but it is sad that we have reached a situation where women have to disappear from the space in order not to be harmed.
All the words will not help and we will not be impressed by the condemnations because only one thing is required now - the establishment of an external and independent investigative committee for an in-depth investigation of this terrible failure which includes serious suspicions of an alleged cover-up by senior officials within the system itself."
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