Police officers: "The Commissioner acted to harm our promotion after our testimony at the Miron Committee"
Two officers who testified against a senior police officer were transferred to positions considered lower in rank, one of them filed a complaint on the matter with the Ministry of Internal Security.
A third officer who testified against Shabtai claims that he is excluded from discussions in the division where he serves as his deputy
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30/09/2022
Friday, September 30, 2022, 07:33 Updated: 07:50
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Police officers claim that Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and other senior officials acted to demotivate themselves from their positions, based on their testimony at the State Commission of Inquiry investigating the Miron disaster - this is what Josh Breiner published this morning (Friday) in "Haaretz".
According to the publication, one of the officers is Deputy Superintendent Avi Tovel, who served as the head of the patrol section and testified before the committee in January 2022 against Deputy Superintendent Morris Chen, who at the time served as deputy head of the Operations Division. In his testimony, Tovel claimed that Chen assigned him the responsibility for enforcing the safety law in the incident retrospectively, after the disaster. "You expect a criminal to do that , you expect a criminal organization to do that, you don't expect the commander to handle such a weighty charge against you without support and without substantiation," Tovel said to the committee. Recently, Tovel was transferred to another position, commander of the operations division's control center, which is considered to be significantly inferior - according to him, due to His testimony at the committee. Tovel even submitted an admissibility on the subject to the Police Officers' Admissibility Commission at the Ministry of Internal Security.
"They claim damage to their status."
Saturn (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
Another officer who claims that his professional status was harmed due to his testimony is Deputy Superintendent Avshalom Elmaleh, who served as the head of the patrol department in the Operations Division.
Elmaleh was recently transferred to serve as the head of the volunteer department, a position that is also considered a lower rank than his previous position.
Elmaleh testified in the investigative committee against Chen, and claimed that the protocol of a hearing held after the Miron disaster was changed, so that a part of it was deleted in which the Commissioner placed the responsibility for mass incidents on the security and licensing division that was under Chen's responsibility.
Also according to the publication, another senior officer who testified in the committee Against the commissioner, he claims in closed conversations that he is excluded from discussions in the operations division, where he currently serves as the deputy head of the division.
The officer, Sub-Commissioner Shimon Nachmani, served as the head of the operations division at the time.
In his testimony before the Miron Committee, Nachmani said that in one of the discussions before the revelry, in which he warned against opening the mountain without restrictions, Shabtai told him: "Don't worry, the investigation committee is on me."
Commissioner Shabtai and Sub-Commissioner Chen are among the recipients of the warning letters from the Miron Committee, which warned them that they may be harmed by the conclusions of the final report into the disaster investigation.
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