The Attorney General and the State Prosecutor Need to Shake Up the Unit That Investigates Police Misconduct. If They Sent Undercover Agents to the Demonstrations, Every Riot Officer Would Think Twice Before Raising a Hand Against a Protester
The State Comptroller Said the Fact That the Internal Affairs Unit Reported to the State Prosecutor’s Office, Which Cooperates Closely With the Police, Risked Leading to Structural Conflicts of Interest
The order was included in a court ruling that rejected a petition by the parents of a suspected car thief who was killed after being shot in the back by a policeman in 2019
The 'blatant violence' and the failure to take testimony from witnesses in the police beating of two residents of East Jerusalem’s Isawiyah neighborhood in 2019 represents a major failing, the ombudsman says
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Nevertheless, he added, they will also continue probing the incident on separate tracks, “to preserve the independence of each agency’s investigation and its ability to uncover the truth in optimal fashion.” Moreover, only Justice Ministry investigators will question police officers, so the police won’t be involved in the decision on whether any of the officers should be considered a suspect.
The prosecution will oversee the joint investigative team and rule on any disputes that arise between the agencies. Mendelblit’s statement noted that the heads of both the police’s investigations and intelligence department and the Justice Ministry department had termed the probe “very complicated” due to the multiplicity of governmental, public and private bodies involved in the disaster.