Posted on 03/17/2016 4:23:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The officer who was responsible for the police 100 emergency hotline during the hotline's tragic blunder in the murder of Naftali Frenkel (16), Gilad Sha'ar (16), and Eyal Yifrah (19) by Hamas terrorists in the summer of 2014 is set to be promoted.
At the conclusion of a hearing of the officer, it was decided to promote him by a rank, against the recommendation of the police investigative committee which specifically called to fire him, reports Channel 10 on Thursday.
The officer's lawyer, attorney Yehuda Shushan, welcomed the decision, saying, "justice has been done and we are happy with the decision."
During the abduction Sha'ar managed to call the hotline at 10:25 p.m. on June 12, 2014. Some of the 2:09 minute call consists of garbled pleas for help in which Sha'ar can be heard saying "I've been kidnapped." In the background, various noises are heard including shouts by the kidnappers at the youths to “keep their heads down,” an Israel Radio program, and several gunshots – and, it was later revealed, singing by the terrorists.
Tragically police treated the call as a hoax, and ignored it until the parents of one of the youths filed a missing person's report at 3 a.m. It was still several hours before police connected the frantic call with the report.
After the bodies of the three youths were found near Hevron around a month later, an internal investigation was launched and five officers were dismissed for the police foul-up.
In the internal police investigation, the officer who was responsible for the emergency hotline during the shift in which the call was fielded said that he was not present at the control center at the time when the hotline supervisor tried to call back Sha'ar's number. However, recordings ...
.....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
She not loved in my eyes.
Yehuda is boy’s name.
Ah. The one I knew was only liked - Yehuva - and was a woman.
Was the officer perhaps a Muslim? I think this may be the case, since they never mentioned his name. Israel is always busy trying to “integrate” Muslims.
“Among the justifications given for the decision was that the failure was a one-time issue and that his service had been classified as “excellent” by the police. In contrast, the hotline supervisor at the time of the incident was fired for her part in the fiasco.”
So it sounds to me like he was protected.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.