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Israeli Police - Politics and Priorities

NCJ Number
88567
Journal
Police Studies Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1983) Pages: 27-35
Author(s)
S Reiser
Date Published
1983
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This study examines the problems and recent reform efforts of the Israeli Police, a public agency lacking a conceptual framework for defining its goals, setting its priorities, and allocating its limited human and material resources.
Abstract
The Israeli Force's overriding problem is that it has no mechanism for establishing goals and ordering priorities. High police officials interviewed in 1980 each saw the Force's problem in a different organizational light. A recent effort to reform the Force failed because of the political environment, the relationship between political parties and Cabinet portfolios, and the general ordering of priorities in Israeli society. Retaining the police within a reinvigorated Interior Ministry would be the best remedy for the Force's sociological and organizational weaknesses. A total of 36 notes are included.