The New York Police Department has opened a branch in Israel. From an Al-Monitor translation of an article in the Israeli newspaper Maariv:
The New York Police Department opened its Israeli branch in the Sharon District Police headquarters in Kfar Saba. Charlie Ben-Naim, a former Israeli and veteran NYPD detective, was sent on this mission. . .
Behind the opening of the branch in the Holy Land is the NYPD decision that the Israeli police is one of the major police forces with which it must maintain close work relations and daily contact. . .
It was decided, in coordination with the Israeli police, that the New York representative would not operate out of the United States embassy but from a building of the Sharon District Police headquarters, situated close to the Kfar Sava station. The NYPD sign was even hung at the entrance to the district headquarters, and Ben-Naim’s office is situated on the first floor of the building. One of the walls bears the sign: “New York Police Department, the best police department in the world.”
Laura Rozen has some more context here.
“The New York Police Department has opened a branch in Israel”
Bad joke:
or is the NYPD already a departmet of Israel´s police?
Sorry, couldn´t help!
Andreas Schlüter
Does Commissioner Kelly still intend to run for Mayor?
I wonder how the sharing of information will work across
these networks? There must be limitations, you’d think.
rosen’s link is funny
NYPD goes overseas on it’s own mission? Hmmm….something interesting in the article below…..perhaps we should have a citizens ‘arrest’ group oursleves since every Tom, Dick and Harry has set up their own authority venues. There is a bounty on Tony Blair for anyone who makes an effort to arrest him in any of the countries that have laws against “premptive war” on their books.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32355.htm
We’re One Crucial Step Closer to Seeing Tony Blair at The Hague
Desmond Tutu has helped us see the true nature of what the former prime minister did to Iraq and increased pressure for a prosecution
By George Monbiot
September 04, 2012 “The Guardian” — For years it seems impregnable, then suddenly the citadel collapses. An ideology, a fact, a regime appears fixed, unshakeable, almost geological. Then an inch of mortar falls, and the stonework begins to slide. Something of this kind happened over the weekend.
When Desmond Tutu wrote that Tony Blair should be treading the path to The Hague, he de-normalised what Blair has done. Tutu broke the protocol of power – the implicit accord between those who flit from one grand meeting to another – and named his crime. I expect that Blair will never recover from it.
That the prospect of prosecution currently looks remote makes it all the more important that the crime is not forgotten. To this end, in 2010 I set up a bounty fund – http://www.arrestblair.org – to promote peaceful citizens’ arrests of the former prime minister. People contribute to the fund, a quarter of which is paid out to anyone who makes an attempt which meets the rules. With our fourth payment last week, we’ve now disbursed more than £10,000. Our aim is the same as Tutu’s: to de-normalise an act of mass murder, to keep it in the public mind and to maintain the pressure for a prosecution’
Is there some not run out criminal limitation for some of the zios like ones that stole US nuclear material that we can set a citizens arrest bounty on?
SINCE THE NYPD NOW HAS A BRANCH IN ISRAEL, PERHAPS THEY CAN HELP IN BRINGING TO JUSTICE THE PERPETRATORS (THOUGHT TO BE NOW LIVING IN ISRAEL) OF THIS TERRORIST BOMBING.
FROM WIKIPEDIA [Alex Odeh]:
SOURCE – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Odeh