In Israel for advanced training on counter-terrorism, THE ADL delegation of senior US law enforcement officials poses with Israel Police officers in Jerusalem.
Among the delegation were chiefs of the Orlando, Florida and San Bernadino, California, police departments, who recently witnessed unprecedented terrorist attacks in their cities.
By Daniel K Eisenbud
Citing Israel’s preeminence in counter-terrorism operations, US police chiefs are visiting the country as part of an ADL delegation to learn advanced training techniques from Israel Police. Among the delegation are chiefs of the Orlando, Florida and San Bernadino, California, police departments, who recently witnessed unprecedented terrorist attacks in their cities.
Oren Segal, director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, said approximately a dozen senior law enforcement officers from across the US are participating in the National Counter-Terrorism Seminar, an annual one-week event which the organization hosts.
“We bring top-level law enforcement from the States to Israel to learn about civil society here, the role that law enforcement plays in terms of protecting communities with regard to terrorism, and to provide a better sense to American law enforcement about Israel,” Segal said on Tuesday.
The seminar was created to show that “people here are like people everywhere,” Segal said, noting that the portrayal of Israel in the news is overwhelmingly negative and frequently focuses on conflict and terrorist attacks.
“Like many people in the States, law enforcement officials who have not visited have a perception of Israel that they get from the media,” he said. “To actually bring people here to experience the day-to-day and learn from academics and Israeli police officials… makes the State of Israel a little more real to them, and they get a better sense of what life is really like here.”
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