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Ha’aretz<\/em> police correspondent Nicole Krau reports that police in Israel are seeking to conduct regular polygraph screening. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heads of the Israel Police are planning to ask a ministerial committee for a green light to conduct regular polygraph tests on their officers, as is routine in the case of security officials, Major General Moshe Karadi, the head of the police human resources branch, told Ha’aretz.<\/p>

Due to budgetary restrictions, police commissioner Shlomo Aharonishky is expected to decide in favor of administering lie detector tests to only a sample of policemen. Following current practice in the Israel Defense Forces, the police commissioner is likely to recommend that two different sorts of tests be performed – one would apply to all men on the force, and the second would be conducted in the case of officers who hold sensitive posts within the service, or have the rank of Major General.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ha’aretz police correspondent Nicole Krau reports that police in Israel are seeking to conduct regular polygraph screening. 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