23.05.2012                      02.Siwan. 5772                    Tag 46 des Omer

Innenpolitik:

Not enough police forces patrolling Israeli streets, report says

Israel lags behind other OECD countries in number of cops per residents, finds report by McKinsey consulting firm.

The Israel Police does not deploy enough police to patrol the streets in many towns and lacks personnel in local stations, according to a report by a an independent consulting firm.
The report, written by McKinsey & Company which spent several months examining police activity, also found that Israel lags behind other OECD countries in police deployment with 0.317 beat cops per 1,000 residents, compared to the OECD average of 0.324….