Thread by @KushalSinha001

I may not be able to substantiate my claim as I've lost track of my readings of Criminology but it is said that the most influential police force (as in, the dept which has inspired other police forces in the world) is Israel 🇮🇱 & not the USA 🇺🇲 as we usually think

Israel's police has managed to influence a major section of police dept around the globe mainly because of their tactics & that's the biggest problem.
Bcz A country where police & the army are deeply intertwined has managed to create an environment of influence.

Just to be clear, I am a big fan of Israel & Mossad. But their police training modules are not the best
1000s of police officers from round the globe including the US, the UK & India (mainly IPS probies) fly to Israel to receive training, and that's where it gets wrong.

Israel police's trg mainly focuses on anti-riot drills, counter terror ops, racial profiling etc rather than civil policing. Even the civil police is trained more for anti sabotage roles than normal civil policing

& these tactics are taken back by foreign police officers & are then replicated in their home country, especially in the USA (I wouldn't say India as we follow a very different model)
Many at times it has been found that those tactics were not needed at all.

The branch which makes up a large part of the police (civil guards) is mainly made up of volunteers. Part timers can never make good police personnel as they are not trained to deal with the public properly.

As stated above, problem w 🇮🇱 police is that it's less of a police & more of a military force which rarely uses an escalation ladder while dealing with the public.

I also agree that violent Palestinian protestors should be dealth with an iron fist, but a police force overall should practice high degree of caution while dealing with the public & should always have a humane touch. At the end of the day, police deals w the public

So the question arises, what can Israel do?
The 1st step Israel should do is to draw a line bw police & military.

It is due to the military culture in the police dept which has repeatedly failed community policing in Israel
(Weisburd 2002)

Secondly, it has to change its training module and focus more on civil policing. The riots can be contained by the anti Riot police 'YASAM' the civil police, as the name suggests should focus on everyday constabulary roles

Ppl in India still haven't understood the concept of a police force which means a humane force which has been established to attend to distress calls of citizens & a force which professionally investigates crimes & put forwards its findings in the court.

Ill state again, that I, stand with Israel, as a student of Criminology I thought I'd share some of my opinion on the Israel police force & where it is going wrong
#Israel #IndiaStandsWithIsrael
Long live India-Israel relations
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