The police are preparing for "the day after" and have already begun collecting findings in preparation for an organizational investigation that is expected to take place at the end of the war.
However, a central question in the investigation deals with the existing interface between the police and the Shin Bet in regards to the operation of the IMM, whose fighters were kicked out of their home as part of the "Tequila Team" on the night between October 6 and 7 in light of information received by the IDF and the Shin Bet about the suspected intention of Hamas terrorists to carry out An attack in one of the surrounding settlements.
The police station in Sderot, photo: EPA
While current and former senior police officers claim that the police procedure requires obtaining permission for such a jump from the Operations Division and the Office of the Commissioner, the Operations Division and the Southern District claim that none of them were informed of any suspicion of a piracy incident.
As mentioned, the police are preparing for an expected organizational investigation on the subject.
However, unlike the IDF, which is already busy with the essence of the investigation and the identity of the team under investigation, the police make it clear that "at this stage the findings are being collected and studied."
Demolishing the police station in Sderot (archive), photo: Shmuel Buchris
However, the police statement ignores the fact that an investigation has already been carried out in the southern district.
The investigation determined that the district commander was the one who mobilized the forces at around 6:30 a.m. following the firing of the rockets at Israel and was the one who activated the "Talam Raptor" command to deal with rocket fire, and at 6:41 a.m. the "Paresh Palestine" command to carry out blockades following terrorist infiltration.
An army soldier against the background of Sderot station, photo: police spokesmen
"It would have been appropriate for the district not to investigate itself," say senior police officers.
"There are enough former superintendents, at headquarters or in other districts, who could investigate."
In the southern district, they claim in response that the investigation carried out "is not operational" but an investigation designed to "check the use of force and the district's hours of operation".
Senior officials in the police and outside are calling on the Commissioner and the Minister of National Security to order, as in the IDF, the establishment of an extra-organizational inspection team to examine the chain of command, the events and the manner of decision-making.
A burnt building in the Gaza Envelope (archive), photo: Yossi Zeliger
Be that as it may, the main question that remains concerns, as mentioned, the jumping of IDF fighters as part of the "Tequila" force to the south when initial indications of terrorist infiltration into one of the Otaf settlements arrived in the morning hours. And at the same time, he must contact the operations division of the police's operations division with an "activation request". Also, according to the procedure, the operations division is supposed to notify the head of the operations division and the office of the commissioner.
As far as is known so far, with the exception of the tequila team that was jumped directly as part of Shin Bet activities, all the IDF forces were jumped at 06:45 after the shooting began on the steep runway and the terrorists' infiltration of the surrounding areas.
Infiltration of terrorists in Sderot (archive), photo: use according to 27 A of the Copyright Law
"You need to check with all the relevant parties, such as the commander of the Southern District, the head of the Operations Division, and the Commissioner, which of them has been updated on the operation, and if it has not been updated - then it is a malfunction," says one of the former heads of the Operations Division. "If the Southern District had been updated on the operation, it could It was to influence activities that took place in the area, such as the Nova Party and the updating of the police stations near Otef."
The police stated that "the operations division of the police did not receive a preliminary report on the night between October 6 and 7 about a fear of infiltration into one of the settlements in the south that led to the jumping of the 'Tequila' force, and these are baseless claims and disconnected from the operational conduct of the police that day."
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