The Israeli police 100 emergency number – a revolution needed
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This has become almost a daily reality- citizens call the 100 police number and get insufficient answers to use mild word. In spite of all prior cases , very little has changed and this week it has ended with the death of two infants.
Police Insp. Gen. Yohanan Danino on Wednesday ordered the Israel Police headquarters to open an investigation against officers from the Arad police station.
He ordered the probe after it emerged that officers had received a complaint from the mother of two young Beduin girls 24 hours before they were found murdered in the village of al-Fura.
The woman told officers that she feared that the girls’ father – from whom she was separated – had threatened to harm the girls and her, but that officers did not pay a visit to the father’s house, where the two girls lived, or follow up on the complaint.
The bodies of the girls, aged three and five, were found in a house in the village showing signs of violence, including strangulation, on Tuesday night.
By Wednesday morning, police had arrested four members of the family – including the mother, who was found in the Jerusalem area and brought in to give testimony before she was released. The father has still not been found and a large-scale operation is under way to locate him.
Heads will roll but that is treating a disease with Aspirin. The police has to completely reorganize the emergency line procedures. In many countries , the police emergency centers , where all the calls of citizens are received , are manned by very experienced policemen .By listening to recordings of recent conversations with the 100 number, the impression is of some amateurs that do not know their job.
i-HLS Editor-in-Chief
