Why are Spain’s Police Travelling to Israel? Police services given military training

“Your Police are being trained by the Israeli Army to defeat and control their enemy, and when your police come back, you become their enemy” — Eran Efrati — Israeli Army Whistleblower warns the American public in March 2014

Spanish police travel to Israel to get military training, aimed at the controlling of protests and civil unrest. This includes combat techniques that are known to be lethal. The government departments involved, include the National Police, Civil Police, Regional Catalan Police Force, Ministry of Defence & Ministry of Interior.

Do the Spanish citizens know, that they are now being exposed to techniques that lead to so many Palestinian civilian deaths? Military training is much more extreme then civilian police training, For example, the Israeli training allows each participant to fire up-to 2500 bullets in two weeks. While under current civilian police approaches, an armed police officer is allowed seventy five bullets per year. Spanish tax payers are paying 4000 Euros per police officer.

“when your police come back, you become their enemy”

The many harrowing cases of police brutality emerging from the USA show the dangers of a militarised police. Do we want to see this in Europe? Eran Efrati warned that Israel’s training of American police is dangerous. Their methods are developed in a context, where the “citizens” are seen and treated as an enemy to be crushed. As he explains, “when your police come back, you become their enemy”.

Although London’s police have confirmed they are travelling to Israel it is not yet known why.

This reports was largely extracted from the following two videos and a freedom of information requests to the London Metropolitan police.

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