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See also:
At
www.police.gov.il,
one can find the Israel Police regulations concerning use of
flags by the police.
There is no description of flags only acknowledgement of them:
The document is "GHQ orders no. 05.06.01 – Flags and
Standards in Israel Police".
Sect 2 deal with the use of the Police flags:
1) Israel Police flag
2) Police District Flag (which is really 6 different flags as the
Police have six districts – North, Central, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,
South and SHAI [= Shomron and Yehuda – Samaria and Judea])
3) Border Guard Flag
4) AKAM flag (AKAM = Agaf Kehila VeMishmar Ezrahi –
Community and Civil Guard Wing)
The specifications of the flags will be determined by rules that
are issued by the Human Resources Wing.
The list of abolished regulation reveals that the police used to
have regulations concerning "flags of ships and boats",
"flag of the Inspector General" and "flag of
police cavalry" .
Dov Gutterman, 14 February 2005
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image by Željko Heimer
The Israel police flag is the police emblem centered on a blue
background, taking a third of its height. The police flag is used
on police boats.
Source: author's observation.
Dov Gutterman, 6 January and 19 August 2001
The police boats are small vessels (speed-boats) and the flag
is on their mast. No other flag hoisted.
Dov Gutterman, 9 October 2001
The German TV channels ARD and ZDF now show a TV
series with detective pieces that play in Jerusalem. The series
was filmed at original locations. Here I saw the police flag.
Jens Pattke, 28 November 2009
![[Police Flag (Israel)]](../images/i/il_polic.jpg)
image located by William Garrison
This image shows the flag being a very dark blue, a darker blue than in the
Israeli national flag.
Source:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/
William Garrison, 1 January 2022
![[Police General Inspector (Israel)]](../images/i/il^gipol.gif)
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image by Željko Heimer
The rank flag for the General Inspector of Israel Police is
quite similar to the Minister of Defence
but with the police emblem on the lower fly. Here are scans of
the General Inspector's flag
and a detail of the emblem.
Dov Gutterman, 6 January 2001
The Police General Inspector flag, as all other Israeli flags,
has a single shade of blue. I saw
the flag and indeed it had the same shade of blue throughout. The
colour used in actual practice is somewhere between the two
shades of blue in a browser-safe palette, and darker than in the
above image.
Dov Gutterman, 8 September 2001
The Inspector General/Lieutenant General (Commissioner) of the Police heads
the Israel Police which was established in 1948 as the primary law enforcement
organization below the Ministry of Public Security. It replaced the (British
Mandate of) Palestine Police Force.
Sources:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The flag is a dark blue background
with the State of Israel flag on the canton and the logo on the lower right
corner towards the fly.
![[Police General Inspector (Israel)]](../images/i/il_polic).gif)
Image (logo) cropped image from the
original located here: https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/office/israel_police/he/israel_police.png,
source:
https://www.gov.il/he/departments/israel_police/govil-landing-page)
For additional information go to Police (official website):
http://www.police.gov.il (which redirects to:
https://www.gov.il/he/departments/israel_police/govil-landing-page)
Esteban Rivera, 4 February 2022
At the Israeli
National Photo Collection there is a photo of "SALUTE TO THE
NEW POLICE PENNANT PRESENTED AT A CEREMONY AT THE SHEFARAM POLICE
TRAINING DEPOT".
Since the regular police flag that is hoisted on all police
stations is the emblem on blue", I thought that this one
must be a personal flag.
Therefore, this flag is not Police General
Inspector rank flag, but the ceremonial flag of the police.
Dov Gutterman, 12 March 2005
image by Željko Heimer, 15 January 2006
One more police flag that I know about (but lack the emblem to draw it) is
the Border Guard flag: green with the police emblem on top hoist and Border
Guard emblem (a symbol of a tower with an inscription below it) on the lower
fly. Source: author's observation. Photos of the flag at
www.police.gov.il.
The Border Guard is not a independent force but a part of
Israel Police, with his commander having a police rank of Nitzav
(Major-General).
Dov Gutterman, 19 August and 25 October 2001 and 6 January
2005
The border guard was established on 26 April 1953 and replaced
the previous Frontier Force. The name Mishmar HaGvul was
given by the first PM, David Ben-Gurion. The green color was
chosen as the color that represent the international border on
the maps ("Green Line") as well as the ruling color of
the north which symbolize blossom and flourish.
The fort in the emblem is a "Galilee Type" Tegart
police fort whose unique shape with the watch-tower represent
strength, firmness, control and guarding the border in sanative
areas.
Sir Charles Tegart, a British anti-terrorism expert from India
was brought to Palestine in 1938. He suggested to build a massive
fence along the north border as well police forts around the
country. Altogether he planed five types of forts in different
sizes. Altogether 56 forts were built. Many of them are still
used today as police stations.
Some became battlefields in the Independence (i.e. Iraq-Suidan –
today Metzudat Yo'av, Latrun, Nabi Yisha – today Metzudt
Ko'akh).
Six of those forts, known as the "Galilee type" were build along the "north
road" and "north fence". They were placed in strategic points and seen from far
with their unique shape. Photo of one at www.snunit.k12.il.
Sources: www.police.gov.il, www.tzafonet.org.il.
Dov Gutterman, 15 January 2007
During my visit at Tel-Aviv today, I ate in a resturant that
is situated at Atarim Marina (aka Tel-Aviv Marina), which is
also the homebase of Tel Aviv Marine Police Unit (Shitur Yami
Tel Aviv).
There were two mast-like flag poles. The "marina" pole
with national flag above and below it Tel-Aviv's
municipal flag and "Atarim Marina" flag (logo on
white). More interesting was the "police" pole with the
national flag at center, police flag on left and the Marine
Police unit flag on the right.
And quite odd flag – a purple naval ensign
with unit emblem replacing the Magen David. I don't know why they
use purple instead of dark blue, and its looks quite odd next to
the blue-white national flag and almost all blue police flag.
I checked the police boats, but both have only a small size
police flag.
Dov Gutterman, 25 July 2005
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