Table showing Palestine Police Force and Persons Service, 1939 - 1945, Number of Police Killed on Duty, 1936 - 1945 before Nakba, British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 588. Chapter XV: Law and Order : (a) Prevention and Detection of Crime : Table 3

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British section of the Police Force has been increased and the Police Mobile Force formed in l!l44; and that still further improvements have been made in the C.I.D. organization and in mechanization and armament.

15. Table 3 shows the establishment of the Police Force during the period following that covered by table 1.

Table 3.

PALESTINE POLICE FORCE and PRISON SERVICE, 1939-1945

British Palestinian\ ~~i~~:l Palestinian I Temporary Temporary) I
Year other add.police add.warders Total
officers officers ranks ranks (Palestinian) (Palestinian)
1939 151 I 116 I 3,069 2,5491 3,736 30 I 9,651
1941 236 11613,032 3,047 5,676 93 12,200
1943 267 123 3,032 3,332 6,740 137 13,631
1945 344 133 5,522 3,434 5,940 92 15,465
(1st I I
april
N.B. The designation "officers" in this table includes inspectors.

The figures in this table do not include the supernumerary police, viz. personnel enrolled as police but employed by the armed forces or others on guard duties. It is emphasized that they relate to establishment and not to the strength at any given time which varies in accordance with the intake of recruits, casualties and discharges. Table 4 shows the criminal cases dealt with by the police from 1938 onwards.

It will be recollected, in consideration of the increases in the establishment of the Police Force reflected in tables 1 and 3, that they are to some extent attributable to the growth of the population and the other factors mentioned in the third paragraph of this chapter.

16. The following figures show the numbers of police personnel killed in action against lawless elements or murdered in the execution of their duty•-

Year British Arabs I Jews I Total
Before 1936 .
1 10 2 13
1936 7 10 5 22
1937 4 I 11 .j 19
1938 9 56 29 94
1989 10 14 27 51
1940 a 2 2 7
1941 5 - 4 9
1942 2 4 2 8
1943 4 2 2 8
1944 10 I 5 3 18
1945 8 3 - 11
- Grand total

63

117

80

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