Crime Incidence in Israel Corresponds to Average in Other Countries; Fewer Murders

While the crime incidence in Israel corresponds to the average in other countries, except for fewer murders, the attention of the police of the Jewish state is today concentrated on checking the organized infiltration of armed bands and Arab cattle thieves, Yehwekiel Sahar, Inspector General of the Israel police, told a press conference here today.

Inspector Sahar outlined the structure of the tasks of the police force, modelled largely after the British police whose organization methods he came here to study, In reply to questions, he said that “no underground now exists in Israel.”