Another discussion of the "Ben Gabir" law - caused an uproar:
during a discussion of the special committee to revise the police ordinance, the chairman of the committee MK Ofir Katz came out today (Wednesday) with a sharp criticism of the police and claimed that the evidence in the Netanyahu trial proves that "the police need to be curbed ".
"From the first moment of the discussions, I keep hearing checks and balances, checks and balances. And I ask, don't we need checks and balances for the police as well? It's not that they are free from mistakes," said MK Katz.
"We need balances and brakes in the police": the chairman of the special committee in a sharp attack following the evidence in the Netanyahu trial // Knesset Channel
"Yesterday we saw a former Commissioner (Roni Elsheich), whom the entire State of Israel has seen in the past say 'I know every letter in the investigation' and yesterday he lied that he never said those things.
What does this do to public trust in the police?
Don't we need checks and balances here?
Balances and brakes should be on one side?", Katz continued with the sharp attack.
He also added: "We are seeing interrogation methods carried out here, I don't know if they are legal, but they are certainly inhumane when talking about the rights of the interrogated. Don't we need checks and balances here? When an interrogator says that his 85-year-old mother's bank accounts and his wife were emptied, and that they take away his the children. We don't need checks and balances here? It's only on one side? When a superintendent of the police collects materials about politicians, and the legal counsel to the government is not aware of it at all, so where are the checks and balances for the police when there is a superintendent who collects materials for one day, who knows, maybe he will need it."
Finally, he concluded by saying that "when there is a problem of public trust with scandals that officials are involved in, and the minister comes and says I will bring in a commissioner from outside. And what do we do with this commissioner? They sew up a case for him. They open investigations against him to tarnish him and he can no longer be commissioner For a week we've been talking here about balances and brakes. We also need balances and brakes for the Israel Police. It can't just be on one side."
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