Ben-Gvir Admits To Replacing Police Leadership With Officers Who Support His Policies – Haaretz.com
Ben-Gvir Admits To Replacing Police Leadership With Officers Who Support His Policies
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir admitted to replacing the entire Israeli police leadership with officers who will carry out his policies.
“I don’t only speak with the police commissioner and his generals, I also talk to station commanders, I invite them for interviews,” said Ben-Gvir on Friday in Matzav Haruach, a weekly pamphlet popular among the religious Zionist right, distributed across synagogues in Israel.
“I do comprehensive [background checks], if I see these are people who are implementing my policies – they are appointed. If they don’t implement them – they are not appointed,” the far-right Otzma Yehudit leader wrote.
The minister added that one of the tenets of his policy is demolishing illegally constructed buildings. “A few weeks ago, we razed an entire village. I’m not ashamed of it,” he said. “My strategy is one of demolition.”
In September, Ben-Gvir, together with Police Commissioner Levy, announced the replacement of all serving police major generals and the appointment of new brigadier generals. As reported in Haaretz, Ben-Gvir spoke with the senior officers prior to their promotion, blatantly asking if they would be loyal to him. In the weeks after the announcement, 18 officers he appointed assumed their new positions.
When asked why he communicates directly with senior commanders, instead of speaking with the police commissioner, Danny Levy, Ben-Gvir said that while he describes his policy directly to them, he does not give them operational guidance or orders. “I don’t tell them to ‘go and arrest so-and-so, don’t do this operation or that operation.'”
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