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    The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial police service established in Mandatory Palestine on 1 July 1920, when High Commissioner Sir Herbert...
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    the rebellion was brutally suppressed by the British Army and the Palestine Police Force using repressive measures that were intended to intimidate the whole...
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  • Tegart police training projects had been initiated after the 1936 Arab revolt, and these were nearly complete by 1939. British recruiters in Palestine had...
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    Yehuda Arazi (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    Mandatory Palestine in 1924, studying in the Gymnasia Herzlia. While in Palestine, Arazi joined the Haganah and the Palestine Police Force. As a police officer...
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    referred to as the Palestine Emergency, was carried out by Zionist underground groups against British rule in Mandatory Palestine from 1944 to 1948. The...
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    British authority began to break down. On 16 December 1947, the Palestine Police Force withdrew from the Tel Aviv area, home to more than half the Jewish...
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    Frederick Peake (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    by the High Commissioner of Palestine to form two small police forces: The Mobile Force, 100 men to guard the Palestine–Amman road. 50 men to support...
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    Palestinian Civil Police Force (PCP; Arabic: الشرطة المدنية الفلسطينية, al-Shurtah al-Madaniyah al-Filistiniyah) is the Civil Police organization tasked...
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    Meir Tobianski (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    digging a well, he abandoned physical labor and enlisted in the Palestine Police Force. He also joined the Haganah. During World War II, he enlisted in...
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    Nations Palestine Commission, the force itself was 1,929 men strong at the time. In early 1948 the force was about 2,000 strong. The Settlement Police cooperated...
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  • Israeli bank. It was founded on February 27, 1902, in Jaffa as the Anglo Palestine Company as subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust (Jüdische Kolonialbank)...
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    Avner Less (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, and during his first years there, worked on orange plantations. From 1941 to 1948, he was a police officer in Haifa and...
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  • Horne, Edward (1982). A Job Well Done (Being a History of The Palestine Police Force 1920 - 1948). The Anchor Press. OCLC 834452921. Page 289. "Irgun...
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    Josef Locke (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    age to enlist in the Irish Guards, later serving abroad with the Palestine Police Force, before returning in the late 1930s to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary...
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    Notrim (category Law enforcement in Mandatory Palestine)
    the Mandate in 1948. The Notrim were nominally answerable to the Palestine Police Force, but were in fact controlled by the Haganah. During the Arab revolt...
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    the Wall is "restored to us." On 6 August the British police force in Palestine established a police post beside the wall. On 14 August the Haganah and Brit...
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    Geoffrey J. Morton (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    Geoffrey J. Morton, BEM (1907–1996) was a member of the Palestine Police, who, in two separate incidents, shot five people, three of them fatally. All...
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    Yitzhak Sadeh (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    of the Jewish Settlement Police, he founded the Posh (פו"ש), the commando arm of the Haganah. It was an elite strike force whose members were hand-picked...
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    Civil administration began in Palestine and Transjordan in July 1920 and April 1921, respectively, and the mandate was in force from 29 September 1923 to...
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    The Palestine pound (Arabic: جُنَيْه فِلَسْطَينِيّ, junayh filastini; Hebrew: פוּנְט פַּלֶשְׂתִינָאִי (א״י), romanized: funt palestina'i (eretz-yisra'eli)...
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    During the British rule in Mandatory Palestine, there was civil, political and armed struggle between Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish Yishuv, beginning...
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  • British Gendarmerie (category Mandatory Palestine)
    British paramilitary police field force created by Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill in April 1922 to police Mandatory Palestine. Concerned with the...
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    to both Military and Civil personnel, such as British section of Palestine Police Force. S.E. Asia 1945–46 For service in South-East Asia after the end...
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  • Kenneth Newman (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    RAF Far East Air Force. On his return to England, he promptly joined the Palestine Police Force in the British Mandate of Palestine, where he served as...
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    Shoshana Borochov (category Jews from Mandatory Palestine)
    Assistant Superintendent in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Palestine Police, who was assassinated by the Lehi on September 29, 1944. Shoshana Borochov...
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  • Charles Tegart (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    1881 – 6 April 1946) was an Anglo-Irish police officer who served extensively in British India and Palestine. Born in Derry on 5 October 1881, Tegart...
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    of the "Status Quo," intended for use by the Palestine Police Force in the British Mandate of Palestine, it is stated: Above the doorway runs a classical...
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    Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group. It is an extreme form of police misconduct...
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    The Sergeants affair (category 1947 in Mandatory Palestine)
    The permanent evacuation of all British Forces in Palestine, along with the Palestine Police Force, created a power vacuum in the area, from which the...
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    between 1917 and 1920, set up on 23 October 1917 following the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and Arab Revolt of World War I. Although it was declared by the...
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