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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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    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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    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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    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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    Notrim (category Law enforcement in Mandatory Palestine)
    in 1948, even though they knew that while the force was nominally answerable to the Palestine Police Force, it was in fact controlled by the Haganah.[clarification...
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    Mandatory Palestine in 1936, during the 1936-39 Arab revolt. At the end of 1940, the JSP had about 15,000 members. A field army based on the force was estimated...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    British in the British Mandate of Palestine in June 1936. The British authorities gradually expanded the Supernumerary Police from 6,000 to 14,000 and ultimately...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Claude Fenner (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    School. He joined the Federated Malay States Police Force as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police in 1936. After the Japanese invasion of Malaya...
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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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    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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    Palestine Police Force in the British Mandate of Palestine. The CID was originally in charge of forensic investigations but after the 1929 Palestine riots...
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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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    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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    The Sergeants affair (category 1947 in Mandatory Palestine)
    Mandatory Palestine and the Civil War between Jews and Arabs. The permanent evacuation of all British Forces in Palestine, along with Palestine Police Force, created...
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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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    During the Mandate period in Palestine, between 1920 and 1948, when Palestine was governed by Britain under terms which were formalised in the League of...
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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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  • Israel Carmi (category Palestine Police Force officers)
    1936 Carmi volunteered for the Palestine Police Force on orders from Haganah. During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Carmi fought whilst outnumbered...
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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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