Palestine Police Force
British colonial police service in Mandatory Palestine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the British colonial police service. For police services of the State of Palestine, see Palestinian Civil Police Force.
The Palestine Police Force was a British colonial police service established in Mandatory Palestine on 1 July 1920,[1] when High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel's civil administration took over responsibility for security from General Allenby's Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (South).[2] The police force was composed of Jewish, Arab and British officers. However, over the course of the Mandate, the police force became less representative of Palestinian populations and increasingly functioned to repress Palestinian political mobilization and to facilitate the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people.[3][4]
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Employees | 2,143 officers (1928)
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Operations jurisdiction | Mandatory Palestine |
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Headquarters | Jerusalem, Palestine |
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